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A FLY ( Scaotomyza terminalis Logw) 
Cslifornia T« D. Urbahns (May 21): R. 3. McLean from San Diego County i 
reports as follows: "The losses in this district this year 
due to the attacks of this insect are approximately 20 cars 
of cauliflower valued at $20,000." r' 
STRAWBERRY 
STRAWBERRY CROWN MOTH ( Aegeria rutilans Hy. Sdw. ) 
Oregon B« Go Thomson (May 20): Adults have "been emerging for a week 
or so at Corvallis. 
CLIMBING CUTWORMS ( Lam-pra spp. ) 
Massachusetts A, I. Bourne (May 26): A complaint from northern Worcester 
County in Lunenburg has come in of injury to strawberries, both 
by climbing cutworms and pheasants. The report concerning the 
pheasants states that they are occasionally finding considerable 
injury from, this source to early garden stuff alongside 
strawberry beds. 
TARNISHED PLANT BUG ( Lygus prat ens is L. ) 
Arkansas A.J.Ackerman (May): The nymphs of the tarnished plant bug caused 
as much as 40 per cent damage in some fields at Bentonville, 
by producing buttoning o£ the berries. Growers report that they 
have not been troubled with this pest in past years. 
A MYRIOPOD 
Indiana J. J. Davis (June 24): Reports of injury to ripening straw- 
berries by a myriopod received from Winamac May 29. 
ASPARAGUS 
ASPARAGUS BEETLE ( Crioceris as-paragi L. ) 
Massachusetts A. I. Bourne (May 26): The county agent of Bristol County 
reports the asparagus beetle in that region present and causing 
considerable injury, beginning about the 15th to the 13th of the 
month. Mr. Haynes, from southern Worcester County, reports 
similar abundance and injury on approximately the same date. 
(June 22): Both species of -asparagus beetles are present in about 
normal abundance, slightly worse than last year, if anything, 
and we began to note their presence early in June at Amherst. 
New York D. D, Ward (June 13): A 1-acre planting has received very 
serious injury in Onondaga County. 
BEANS 
MEXICAN BEAN BEETLE ( Epilachna corrupta Muls. ) • . 
CORRECTION N. P. E ward (May 25): In the May 1 issue of the Bulletin, Vol. 
