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Pear psylla infestation is general throughout the fruit sections of New 
York State. 
The plum curculio has "been materially retarded in the G-eorgia Peach Belt 
"by dry weather. In Illinois and Missouri this pest is more prevalent than 
usual. 
A limited hut very serious infestation of the "black-lined cutworm in 
blueberry plantations in Ma£;na is reported this : month, single growers suffering 
losses as high as' $12,000. ' 
A species of Julus is assuming major importance as a potato pest in 
northeastern Ohio, 
Damage for the first time to cultivated crops "by Eleode s omissa "boreal is 
Blaisd., one of the false wireworras.is reported from California. 
A late report not included in this number of the Bulletin indicates that 
the Mexican bean "beetle was taken in the field at Birmingham, Ala., March 30» 
three weeks earlier than in 1923 and 192U. By May 25 over 20 per cent of beetles 
had emerged in hibernation cages. The light infestation in this section is 
undoubtedly due to small number of beetles entering hibernation last fall on 
account of prolonged drought. 
An interesting note of the gradual increase in destructiweness of the 
garden fleahopper to truck crops has been received from the west coast of Mexico. 
Two unusual pests of strawberries are reported in this number, one the 
raspberry fruit worm attacking the young fruit in Connecticut, and the other a 
small beetle Bra chypt er olus ru lica rius, feeding on the blossoms in New York 
State. The latter was r eporteu doing similar damage in New York State in 1922 
(ss I.P.S. Bulletin II, P. 89, under Eeterostoraus -pnlicarins L. 
In the Sinaloa region of Mexico the corn earworm is reported as having 
destroyed a very appreciable quantity of the cannery peas, estimates running 
from 1 to 50 per cent in different fields. This is the first record that we have 
of this insect being a serious pest to peas. 
The camphor scale has been found for the first time in Vermilion Parish, 
La* 
The elm leaf beetle is reported as seriously infesting trees in Dayton, 
Ohio, where up to this time it has not been a serious pest. 
A very serious infestation of a rose house in the vicinity of Philadelphia 
by the Surinam roach is reported in this number. In one of the commercial houses 
in this vicinity approximately 30,000 plants have been girdled. 
