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cucumbers, and 600 wormy cucumbers detected in a week, over 100 of 
their UgO growers having brought in wormy cucumbers. 
Mississippi. C. Lyle (August 2U): Pickle worms reported on August 20 as 
being unusually bad in Grenada County, north-central Mississippi, des- 
troying most of the late cantaloups. 
MELON APHID ( Aphis gossypii Glov. ) 
Indiana. J. J. Davis (August 2 ] +): Abundant and destructive generally 
throughout the State. 
Minnesota. C. E. Mickel (August): Melon louse abund-nt in the vi.cini.ty of 
Saint Paul and Minneapolis. 
Kansas. H. R. Bryson (August 25):. Reported as destructive this year. 
Vines in some melon patches killed. Injury not confined to cucumbers 
and melons alone, but squash and pumpkins also damaged considerably. 
Nebraska. M. H. Swenk (August 23): The melon aphid is damaging chiskmelons, 
watermelons, and cucumbers in -Dougl' ls , Burt, Saline, Antelope, and 
Furnas s Counties. 
Utah. G-. F. Knowlton and F. C. Harmston (August 2.U): Cantaloup vines being 
destroyed at G-reen River, east-central Utah. 
ASPARAGUS 
ASPARAGUS BEETLE ( Criocerus asparagi L. ) 
North Carolina. C. S, Brimley (August 22): Infesting an asparagus bed at 
Thomasville. Damage severe. 
South Carolina. J. G. Watts (August): During the first half of the month 
this insect continued to be very destructive, but since that time the 
population and injury has decreased considerably. Most fields in the 
asparagus-growing section of the State that have not been poisoned 
have been severely damaged. Crowns and young plants have been more 
seriously affected than older nlants. 
Utah. G. F. Knowlton (August 22): All stages foimd during the early part 
of August in several infested fields in Weber and Davis Counties. 
Washington. E. J. Newcomer (August): Very common in the Yakima Valley. 
TURNIP 
TURNIP APHID ( Rhopalosiphum pseudobrassicae Davis) 
Ohio. G. A. Runner (August 23): Abundance of turnip aphids making it 
difficult to obtain satisfactory stands of turnios in some localities. 
