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MELON APHID (A sphis gossypii Glov. ) 
E„ N* Cory (May 20): First record on above plant on this date. 
J. J. Davis (June 26): The melon aphid has "been noticed appearing 
in threatening numbers at Spencer and La Fayette, No reports have 
yet con© to us; such reports seldom reach us until the aphids have 
become abundant and spread throughout the field. 
SQJJaSE BUG- (Anasa tris tis DeG.) 
Oliver I. Snapp (June 10): Squash bugs are damaging watermelons 
more than usual at Fort Valley this year. A number of growers 
had to hand-pick and use nicotine sulphate. The infestation is now 
under fairly good control. The season has been dry, 
PE^S 
The note appearing in Volume 6, No. 2, page U2, April 1 number, 
credited to A* '.7. Morrill, under Illinoia pi si Kalt., should read 
Salt-Mar sh caterpillar, Estigmene acraea Drury. 
PEA APHID ( Illinoia pisi Kalt.) 
B* H. Y7alden (June 11): Feaa are bOing attac^d .at Saftdan on this 
date. It seems to be more abundant as compared with an average 
year. Also reported By A. E. uTilkinson, vegetable specialist, 
extension department, from Southington, Plainsville , Glastonbury, 
East Granby, Y/indsor, and TTethersfield. 
F„ S. Chamberlin (June l6): Small patches of garden peas are 
heavily infested with aphids at the present time in Gadsden County. 
C» L. Fluke (June 9) : This insect has usually appeared in large 
numbers, by this time. This year very few individual s^-fsjs&found 
in the fields at Madison. It is not possible at present to predict 
an abundance or nonabundance. At present it would appear as if 
we would have very few outbreaks of the pea louse. 
RCCT-KNOT NEMATODE (Probably Heterodera radicicola Greaf- 
" Muell.) 
J. E. Dudley Jr„ (June 10): An outbreak of this nematode was 
discovered this year, on a farm growing peas for the Sauk City 
Canning Company. Three fields of Perfections, Admirals, and Alaskas 
totaling approximately 8 acres were examined. Perhaps one-half of 
the Perfections were entirely dead and probabilities are that a 
loss of from 75 to SO per cent will be sustained. Other varieties 
are heavily infested, but a fair crop may be secured. This is the 
first time this pest has been reported from "isconsin and it was 
supposed to be beyond the northern limits of this pest. Opportunities 
are present for its spread throughout the warm sandy region of which 
this county is a center. 
