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BEAN LEAF HOLLER ( C-oniurus proteus L. ) 
Florida g. j,. Garrison (May IS): Garden beans were heavily infested by the 
bean leaf roller at Cuincy. Lead-arsenate spray gave good control. 
CORN EAR WORM ( Heliothis obsoleta Fab.) 
lorida F. S. Chamber 1 in (May 5): Snap beans in Gadsden County are 
slightly infested with larvae of the corn ear worm. 
SEED CORK MAGGOT ( Hylemyia cilicrura Rond. ) 
few York E. ?. Felt (May 25): Attacked sprouting lima beans at Wading 
River, L. I., occasioning some complaint. The injury is probably 
consequent on cool wet weather. 
MEXICAN BEAN BEETLE ( Spilachna corrupta Muls. ) 
^ io H. A. Cos sard (May 22): Mexican bean beetles appeared in the field 
at Chill icothe on May 12, and eggs were deposited on cages on 
May 15. 
PEAS 
. ' CORN EAR WORM ( Heliothis obsoleta Fab . ) 
lexico A. W. Morrill (May 11): This insect was unusually abundant in the 
vegetable growing sections of the west coast of Mexico (States of 
Sonora and Sinaloa) during the months of February, March, and 
April. One close observer, superintendent of a ranch, reported 
about 1 per cent infestation in the peas brought to the packing 
shed. The harvesting season was ovefi so it was too late to verify 
the percentage, but specimens were found in the old fields suffi- 
cient for identification. About one hundred miles south in the 
Sinaloa River Valley the manager of a ranch where several hundred 
acres of peas were grown for spring shipments reported an average 
of approximately 15 per cent damage by the bollworm. An exami- 
nation of llU pods selected at random from the bins in the packing 
shed showed 55 or approximately 50 per cent damaged with a total 
of three live specimens present inside the pods* This is the 
first time in my four years contact with West Coast vegetable 
growing conditions that an attack Of this kind *o peas has been 
reported or observed. In the Fuerte Valley at about the same 
latitude as the point where the above mentioned observations were 
made in the Sinaloa Valley there has been an unusual amount of 
damage to tomatoes from the bollworm. This damage had reached as 
high as 20 per cent in some fields, and was increasing when my 
last observations were made about the 20th of April. In the 
Culiacan Valley, less than 100 miles farther southj early in 
April it was observed that bollworm damage was much more extensive 
than observed during the last four years. A rough estimate in one 
field of 300 acres placed the damage at not less than 25 per cent. 
