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Idaho 
districts 90 per cent of the f ir r ;t crop of seed was destroyed in 
some instances and the loco in all fields was heavy. Infestation 
is great only on Sr-year-i Id fields, amounting probably to not more 
than 10 per cent in fields seeJed in 1326. 
CLQVER APHID ( Anuraphis b akeri Cowan) 
C. Wakeland (July 29):, Clover fields unusually heavily infested 
this season forced many growers to cut the first crop for hay and 
to try to produce seed on second crop. Many fields so handled 
are in their second seed year and will produce little seed on sec- 
ond crop so that the clover aphid is responsible for a heavy re- 
duction of seed yield, Also, on first- ye af crops second crop c 
will probably be light because of prolonged cool cloudy weather 
following the clipping of the first crop which permitted second 
crop to start growth immediately and furnish food and protection 
for surviving aphidc. There will be much "honeydewed" seed this 
fall. 
GRASS; 
A SPITTLE INSECT (Leioyronia quadrangularis Say) 
Mississippi R. W, Hamed (Augast 22); At the present time the work of spittle 
insects is conspicuous on Johnson grass and numerous other plants 
in the vicinity of the A. &. k. College. Possibly more than one 
species is at work, but the only species so far reared to the 
adult stage has ''oeen identified as Levyronia. ouadrangularis . 
D E C I D U Q U S - F R U I T INSECTS 
MISCELLANEOUS FEEDERS 
South Dakota 
APHIIDAE 
H, C. Severin (August 0): wiany species of aphids have been unusu- 
ally abundant this year. The year as a whole has been wetter and 
cooler than usual, 
California 
New Jersey 
A GRASSHOPPER ( Schistocerca venusta Scudd. ) 
0, E, Essig (August 15): Damage in Paradise Valley to orchards, 
pear trees in particular 
JAPANESE BEETLE ( Popillia .japonica Newm, ) 
L, B, Smith (August 30): Th© Japanese beetle has been found this 
summer at the following points outside the regulated area: 'Tilks- 
barre, Lehighton and Gettysburg, Pa,; Baltimore, Cambridge and 
Chesapeake City, fad..; Clayton, Del.; Washington, D. C. ; Linden- 
hurst (L. I.) and Nyack, N, Y. ; and Bridgeport, Conn, A few in- 
