SOUTHERN GREEN PLANT-BUG (Nexara viridula L. ) 
Mississippi R- W» Harned (May 18): Almost daily we receive complaints from 
every section of the State regarding damage to "beans, melons, 
etc*, caused by the southern green plant-bug. 
BEAN t tEZVIL (Br uchus obtectus Say) 
New York G- E. Smith (April 16): This pest has been unusually abundant 
in Orleans County* 
PLANT-LICE (Aphididae) 
Mississippi R» V?. Hamed (May 18): Almost daily we receive complaints from 
every section of the State regarding damage to beans, melons, 
etc, caused by plant-lice or aphids- 
Pachys te thus lucicola Eab»' 
New York C« R. Crosby: At Glen Head many cities were found eating 
holes in the leaves of garden bsans. 
PEAS 
PEA APHID ( Illinoia nisi KaltO 
New York W« D« Mills (May 19): This insect was first found in some numbers 
on May 18* 
Virginia Herbert Spencer (May 9): The pea louse is occurring in numbers 
in Xhe tidewater section, of Virginia and dasGage has been reported 
by several farmers in the vicinity of Norfolk. 
Michigan R« E. Pettit (May 26): Yesterday I received word that the green 
pea louse was endangering and threatening the fields of alfalfa 
near Paw Paw Today I received specimens of alfalfa completely 
loaded with the green pea louse from Allegan- 
Ohio T« H- Parks (May 17): A few aphids have been found on young peas 
at Coi-umbus. They are also coirmon on sweat clover on the 
University Earm at Columbus. 'This is one legume pest the plant 
seems to accommodate- They are plentiful on red clover, but 
no visible damage is seen. Some Call interus trifolii are among 
them. The weather was very dry during the last of April and has 
been rainy and cool the past 10 days* Specimens were sent in 
from two counties in northwestern Ohio with the statement that 
they were seriously damaging alfalfa. This aphid is present 
on alfalfa at Columbus, but no serious damage has been done* 
