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Japanese lilacs. 
ROSE 
A ROSE TWIG GIRDLER ( Agrilus communis rubicola irerrin) 
Indiana. J. J. Davis (August 24): Reported as destructive to Rugosa roses 
at Decatur and Muncie during the month. 
CURLED ROSE SAWELY (Em-,ohytus ciiictipos Wort.) 
Washington. C. F. Doucette (August 20): The coiled rose worm has been ouitc 
abundant on the rose "bushes in my garden at Sumner this summer, so^e of 
the plants being completely defoli ted and all of them developing a 
ragged appearance. The peak of the feeding seered to come about the first 
week in August, and now there are only a few slugs in evidence and the 
plants are producing more foliage free from injur:/. 
ROSE AxHID ( Macro si uhum rosae L. ) 
Washington. C. E. Doucette (August 20): This aphid his been more or less 
abundant on rose bushes in my garden at Sumner this summer. One spray 
was applied early in June, at which time the aphids wore extremely 
numerous and would have seriously injured the plants, if they had not 
been killed. At present they seem to be increasing again to the r>oint 
where another spray will be required. 
INSECTS ATTACKING M A N AND 
DOMESTIC ANIMALS 
MAN 
3EDBUG (Cimex lectularius L. ) 
Indiana. J. J. Davis ^August 24): Bedbugs have been reported -ore frequently 
then for many years. In one plsce, Windfall, poultry houses in the com- 
munity were badly infested. 
Nebraska. M. . H. Swenk (August 15): Reports of bedbugs in hen houses ?nd 
residences come from Perkins and Dawes 'Counties on July 2" 3 i and August 3, 
respectively. 
EYE GNATS ( Hir-.el^tes By?.) 
Mississippi. J. f. Kislanko (August 20): Eye gnats nro very abundant in 
several counties in southern Mississippi. In Wiggins "pink-eye" in 
children is an epidemic ^ntf is being attributed to abundance of eye gnats. 
