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injury to eggplant about Gulf port and Long Beach. From 2 to 7 to the 
plant were found and many plants hod loaves riddled with holes. 
MINT 
MINT FLEA BEETLE ( Longi tarsus waterhousei Kutsch.) 
Indiana. J. J. Davis (July 22): The mint flea beetle is damaging many mint 
fields in northern Indiana, where control has not "been practiced. 
Michigan. R. Hut son (July 17): The mint flea "beetle is causing considerable 
damage to mint in the vicinities of Baroda, Niles, Dowagiac, and Saint 
Johns. 
STRAWBERRY ROOT WEEVIL ( Brachyrhinus ovatus L. ) 
Michigan. R. Hut son (July l6): B. ovatus has "been causing considerable damage 
to mint at Ovid. One field of 3 acres was totally ruined and several 
other fields are infested. 
. STRAWBERRY 
STRAWBERRY CROWN MOTH ( Aegeria rut ileus Hy. Edw. ) 
Oregon. D. C, Mote and assistants (June 29): The peak of emergence was reachec 
in the last week of June. The moths began to appear the first week of Juie, 
BEETS 
BEET LEAFHOPPER (Eutettix tenellus Bak. ) 
Utah. G. F. Knowlton (June 27): Beet leaf hoppers are present in damaging 
numbers in most parts of Utah, with sugar beets and tomatoes being seriously 
affected in most areas in which they are grown. Curly-top damage is least 
severe in Cache Valley. Sugar beets have been plowed up in some fields in 
more seriously infested areas. (July 20): Leafhoppers and curly-top are 
becoming increasingly destructive to the sugar beet crop. More beets are 
being abandoned as the season progresses. 
C. J. Sorenson (July 27): The beet leafhopper is very abundant in Utah, 
Salt Lake, Davis, Boxelder, and Weber Counties. 
SPINACH LEAF MINER (P cgomyia hyo scyomi Panz.) 
Montana. A. L. Strand (Jxuio 2..',) : The beet leaf miner ha.s caused commercial 
damage to beets, Swiss chard, and spinach this year for the first time. 
