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7/isconsin. E. L. Chambers (June 2U): Extremely heavy losses from the pea 
aphid to canning peas of the early crop just being harvested are re- 
ported from all sections of the State. 
Missouri. L. Haseman (June 2*+) : In spite of the recent drought and hot 
weather, quite a sprinkle of the common pea aphid has recently appeared 
on garden peas at Columbia. The ladybeetles, however, have been very 
active in keeping them under control. 
Kansas. H. R. Bryson (June 23): Reported causing injury to garden peas 
at Ozawakie. 
Mississippi. C. Lyle (June 25): Serious damage to English pease was reported 
from Beach on May 2o. 
Utah. G. P. Knowlton (June 25): Pea aphids have .seriously damaged one field 
of canning peas in North Logan, and damage to peas is rather general in 
northern Utah. Large numbers of aphids are dispersing from pea fields 
in the Weber County area to tomatoes and other crops. This condition is 
causing considerable local worry. (June 28): Injury to peas becomes 
more serious daily throughout northern Utah. Some commercial patches 
have been ruined. This is the most serious outbreak in more than 11 
years . 
ZEBRA CATERPILLAR ( Mamestra picta Harr.) 
Indiana. J. J. Davis (June 22): Zebra caterpillar larvae about % inch long were 
abundant on garden peas at Port Wayne on June l6 and were riddling 
foliage of gladiolus at Greenfield on June 15. 
CABBAGE 
CABBAGE INSECTS (Lepidoptera) 
Virginia. H. G. Walker (June 2U) : The cabbage looper ( Autographa brassicae 
Riley) and the larvae of the diamond-backed moth ( plutella oaculiponnis 
Curt.) have been vory scarce this spring around Norfolk. 
South Carolina. W. J. Reid and C. 0. Bare (June 2h)i Although retarded to 
a considerable extent by adverse weather during the winter and early 
spring, the populations of the three more important species of green 
worms that attack cabbage in this locality — the diamond-back moth, the 
cabbage looper, and the imported cabbage worm (Ascia rapae L.) — became 
so numerous during May and the early part of June as to cause severe 
damage to the late plantings of cabbage. In experimental plantings the 
yield of Grade 1 cabbage was reduced from approximately 50 to 90 percent. 
In relative abundance the species occurred in the order named, from most 
to least abundant. One hundred and six larvae of the diamend-back moth, 
12 cabbage loopers, and 10 imported cabbage worms were known to have 
developed to the pupal stage on single plants (not the same plants). 
