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Mississippi. C. Lyle (May 23): Tho imported cabbage worn is causing severe 
injury in the Aberdeen district and is fairly abundant at State College 
and in the ticking section of Copiah and Lincoln Counties. 
Washington. R. S. Lehnan (May): The cabbage butterfly is doing some damage 
to cabbage near 7/alla Walla. Cabbage plants are usually set out in the 
fall, but a fall freeze killed all the plants, making a spring setting 
of plants necessary; thus, greater damage "oy the cabbage butterfly is 
expected as the plants will nature late. 
CABBAGE LOOPER ( Autographa br assicae Riley) 
Mississippi. L. J. Goodgane (May 23): The cabbage looper is unusually 
abundant in the Aberdeen district. 
CABBAGE APE ID ( Brevicoryno brassicae L.) 
Virginia. H. G. Walker (May 25): The cabbage aphid is very abundant in sonc 
fields of cabbage and seed kale at Norfolk. 
Tennessee. G. M. Bentley (May 6): The cabbage aphid is prevalent on young 
cabbage plants in the western part of the State in the trucking counties, 
and particularly in Gibson County in the vicinity of Hunboldt. These 
plants were observed on May 6. 
HARLEQUIN BUG ( Murgantia hi,strionica Halm) 
Virginia. L. W. Brannon (May 7) : Adults have been observed feeding on seed- 
kale plants in the field at Norfolk since March 31* The first eggs 
were found in the field on April 21. The date of energence and oviposi- 
tion is about normal. 
Georgia. T. L. Bissell (May 12): Eggs were found in col lards today at 
Experiment. 
Mississippi. C. Lyle and assistants (May 23): The harlequin cabbage bug 
was abundant in the Aberdeen district and around Jackson. Only slight 
damage in southwestern Mississippi has been observed. 
CABBAGE MAGGOT (Ky lenyia brassicae Bouche) 
Connecticut. N. Turner (May 23): Maggots reported to be much more abundant 
on cabbage in the Connecticut Valley than usual. Mature larvae were 
found May 22, snnewhat earlier than usual. Two fields of early cabbage 
showed heavy infestations and 50 percent loss. 
New York. N. Y. State Coll. Agr. News Letter (May): The cabbage maggot is 
more injurious to crucifers on Long Island than it has been for several 
years. It is also injurious in Niagara and Onondaga Counties. 
New Jersey. T. J. Headlee (May 21): The cabbage maggot has been unusually 
abundant this season, especially in the northern part of the State. 
