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Alabama 
Mississippi 
Idaho 
Utaii 
J. M. Robinson (July 23): The squash hug is very abundant 
on watermelon vines at Troy, Palos, Auburn, and Clanton. 
J. M. Langston and assistants (July): Complaints of injury 
by this insect have been received from various sections of 
the State throughout the month. Aside fro- 1 , their damage to 
cucurbits they have been doing damage to ripe plums and toma- 
toes. (Abstract, J.A.H. ) 
C. V '-.s&and (June 30): The squash bug, discovered in Idaho 
for the first time in 1929, has increased and smread until 
we are receiving many inquiries from southwestern Idaho con- 
cerning control measures. 
G. 7. Enowlton (July 2): Squash bugs are abundant and doing 
serious damage in Utah County. 
Colorado 
Indiana 
Minnesota 
ONIOITS 
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0NI0I7 THTJPS ( Thrips t abaci L.) 
C. P. Gillette (July 22): The onion thrips is moderately 
abundant in the Arkansas Valley. 
J. J. Davis (July 25 ): Reports received from inspectors 
indicate 50 per cent damage to the onion crop in northern 
Indiana by thrips and drought. 
* 0NI0:T MAGGOT ( Hvlemyia antiqua Meig.) 
A. G. Euggles and assistants (July): The onion maggot is 
very abundant on all onions, cabbage, and radishes. (Abstract, 
J.A.H.) 
Virginia 
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SJ7PETP0TAT0 3AVJPLY ( Stericti-phora collnris Say) 
G. S. Gould and H. G. Walker (July 16): The sweetpotato 
sawfly is slightly more abundant this year than last in the 
infestation near Munden in Lower Frincess Anne County. 3ven 
though larvae were found in several new fields this year, 
the infestations are very light and little damage is apparent 
The adult sawflies and the parasite flies, Schi z o c ero-nhaga 
leibyi Towns., arc now emerging. 
