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TRUCK-CROP INSECTS 
FALSE CHINCH BUG ( Nysius ericae Schill.) 
Michigan. R. Hutson (June 25): The false chinch hug has been causing some 
danage on strawberries in the vicinity of Fennville and South Haven. 
Wisconsin. E. L. Chanters (June 2U) : Nursery inspectors report the false 
chinch hug very abundant in central Wisconsin strawberry patches.' 
Minnesota. A. A. Granovsky (June 22): False chinch bug infesting cornfields 
in Wadena County. 
North Dakota. J. A. Munro (June): Field-crop injury is subsiding. 
South Dakota. H. C. Severin (June): A terrific outbreak of false chinch 
bug has occurred in South Dakota. Crops attacked are garden crops, snail 
grains, flax, alfalfa, sweetclover, fruit trees, and berries. Bugs are 
attracted in innense nunbers to electric lights. In front of store 
windows they could be scooped up by handfuls. 
Nebraska. M. H. Swenk (June 20): The common false chinch bug was reported 
as attacking corn in Fillmore County on June 16. 
California. S. Lockwood (June 12): Sporadic but localized outbreaks of the 
false chinch bug have occurred on grapes in Napa, Sacramento, and Merced 
Counties and have caused small loss to young tomato plants in Sacramento 
County. 
C. K. Fisher and D. F. Barnes (June 11): False chinch bugs were 
doing sone danage on May 13 — enough to necessitate treatment in spots 
in a young vineyard 10 miles southeast of Fresno. Some leaves were 
entirely killed by bugs. 
FLEA BEETLES (Halticinao) 
New York. N. Y. Coll, Agr. News Letter (June 15): Flea beetles are becoming 
serious in the western part of the State. 
Michigan. R. Hutson (June 20): The triangle floa beetle ( Disonycha triangu- 
laris .' Say) has been exceedingly abundant on spinach and other garden 
crops at East Lansing, Lake Odessa, Fremont, Clarksville, Grand Rapids, 
and Charlotte. 
Ohio. T. H. Parks (June): The pale-striped flea beetle ( Systena taeniata 
blanda Melsh.) is quite injurious in several northwestern Ohio counties 
and is reported feeding upon young corn, tomatoes, and sugar beets. 
Indiana, J. J. Davis (June 22): The pale-striped flea beetle has been very 
abundant and destructive to tomato plantings throughout the northern half 
of the State, reports being received on June 8 and every day since that 
date. Several reports of injury to field and sweet corn have also been 
