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Tbe vegetable weevil is being reported from several localities 
in Mississippi, in some cases doing serious damage to tomato plants, 
turnips, and carrots. 
The seed corn maggot is reported as seriously damaging potato 
seed pieces and corn in Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, and Missouri, and 
doing some damage in Iowa. It was also reported as destroying water- 
melon seeds in Utah and peas in Minnesota. 
The Colorado potato beetle appears to have been favored by the 
prolonged drought along the north Atlantic Seaboard. Reports of unusual 
abundance have been received from North Carolina to New York. On 
May 21 adults of this insect were collected in St. Johns County, Fla. 
This appears to be the first record of this insect as far south as the 
Hastings area in this State. 
The cabbage aphid is seriously abundant on seed kale in the 
Norfolk district of Virginia where it may reduce the crop by half. 
The weevil Tyloderma mo rbillos a Lee. is very serious in a number 
of strawberry fields in western Washington. As high as 50 adults have 
been found on a single plant and the plants so infested are killed in 
about a week. 
The first emergence of the Mexican bean beetle was observed at 
Camden, Del., on May 6. In the Norfolk district of Virginia adults 
were observed in the field on the first of the month. 
The pea aphid has been worse on the Eastern Shore of Maryland 
than it has been for many years. 
Heavy stripping of the early foliage of elm by Calligrapha 
scalaris Lee. is being reported in Webster, Nuckolls, and Furnas 
Counties in Nebraska. 
In the vicinity of Augusta, Me., the larch case bearer has de- 
foliated approximately one-fourth of the larch trees. Many of these 
trees have been killed by this insect in previous infestations. 
A severe infestation of the spruce budwerra in the Shoshone National 
Forest has been under way for three or four years. 
The spruce needle miner ( Epinotia nan ana Treitsche) is reported 
as seriously affecting spruces in northern Illinois and eouthern 
Wisconsin. 
Canna leaf rollers are very heavily infesting commercial plantings 
of cannas in the southern part of Mississippi. 
The Argentine ant has been found in three municipal greenhouses 
in Baltimore, Md. 
