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SOYBEANS A ND'COWPEAS 
CLCVER ROOT CURCULIO (Sltona h ispidulus Fab.) 
Indiana J.J. Davis (June 24): Adults reported damaging soybeans at Frank- 
fort June 17. Because of. th'ejfact that much clover sod was in 
bad shape this spring, many fields were plowed under and planted 
to soybeans. ■ This very -likely will result, in -considerable damage 
to soybeans oy Sitones.- -. 
Illinois -W. P. Flint {.June 18): Adults of the plover sitona, in roost cases 
Sij^ones hji3p_idulus . have been reported from a number cf localities 
causing injur}/ to soybeans where soybeans have been planted on 
•s pring- p 1 e w sd ci o v e r s o d , 
BLISTER BEETLES (Meloidae) 
Louisiana W. E. Hinds (May 28): The blister beetles are now becoming abund- 
ant and attacking-, soybeans particularly. 
•"; ■ GRASS 
LEPIDOPTEROUS .LARVA (Pseudanaphora arcanella Clem :•) 
Louisiana Insect Pest Survey Bulletin, Vol. 5, No. 2, page 83, May 1 number, 
gives an account of a lepidoptero us larva- injuring lawns, pastures, 
and golf greens. ?his was reared byW. So Haley and- has been 
determines by Dr. Dyar as Ps eudanaribora a re, anemia Ciem„ 
FRUIT INSECTS 
. . ■ ■ APHIDIDAE > . 
Massachusetts A. I. Bb.urne (May « 26).:- - Aphids) have proven to be much less a pest 
than we were led to" expect by condition during the early season. 
Even in orchards where no particular at.te :: : ;icn was, given to their 
• -control, they have very largely disappeared* The aphids hatched 
earlier than. -we -have n t,.d tor several years so that the oil sprays 
found the; /ery largely ail hatched and clustered on the buds. 
Rhode Island A. E. Stene (June 20.): Plant lice on fruit trees were abundant 
■early in the seaso.a but co-Id weather a-d rains apparently suppress- 
ed th era . .".... 
GREEN APPLE APHID (Aphis pom i DeG.J 
New York C. R. Crosby and assistants "(June "6") : At Honeoye Falls 2-year-old 
apple trees were attacked by this insect in sufficient numbers to 
warrant the application of control measures. 
