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L. A. Stearns (July 22): The second brood of the Mexican 
been beetle in generally severe throughout the State. 
E. N. Cory and assistants (July 17): The Mexican bean beetle 
is .on the increase, first adults of the second generation oc- 
curring. 
J. T. Houser (July 10): The Mexican bean beetle is moderate- 
ly abundant, and is much more plentiful than in 1930. 
J. J. Davis (July 25): The Mexican bean beetle has been re- 
ported frequently from June 17 to date as follows: Bedford, 
Mitchell, Salem, Cloverdale, Greencastle, Bloomington, Dan- 
ville, Terre Haute, Bridge-ton, Rockville, and Anderson. The 
county agent of Monroe County reports that during June he re- 
ceived over 125 telephone calls about insects and over half 
were regarding the Mexican bean beetle. 
C. P. Gillette (July 22): The Mexican bean beetle is very 
abundant on the eastern and western slopes. 
BEAN APHID ( Aphis runic is L. ) 
IT. Turner (July 1): Moderately heavy infestation on bush 
and pole limas. Some growers have had no trouble from this 
aphid for several years. 
LIMA BEAK VINE BORER (M ono-ptilota pcrgratialis Hulst).> 
W, A. Thomas (July 18): Iritis insect is much more numerous 
in the vicinity of Chadbourne than it has been in the past 
eight years. Growers of home gardens complained of the in- 
jury of this insect. 
BEAN THRIPS ( Heliothri-os fasciatus Per;g. ) 
J. M. Langston and assistants (July 21): There is a very ..heavy 
infestation of thrips, causing blooms of pole beans, bunch 
beans, and butter beans to fall. Practically no fruit is 
setting. Complaints have come in f rom several places in 
Union, Lee, Itawamba, and Pontotoc Counties. 
S. Lochwood (July 27): On the 15th day of July there was 
discovered an insipient infestation of bean thrips on about 
20,000 acres of cotton in the Dos Palos — Los Banos area 
of the San Joaquin Valley in California. At that time adult 
thrips averaged over this area about one thrips to the plant 
and at this time the larvae were found numerous only in 
rather small areas of this region. No commercial damage had 
occurred, though there is promise of considerable to come. 
