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The seed corn maggot was rather destructive in New York and the East 
Central States southward to Kentucky and westward to Nebraska. 
The cabbage maggot is occurring in outbreak numbers in Connecticut, 
Now York, and Hew Jersey, with serious damage also reported from Indiana, 
Kentucky, and Wisconsin. In Connecticut one grower estimated his loss at 
between 2,000 and 3,000 plants, while plants in unscreened beds in New York 
were danaged from 15 to 60 per cent. 
The Colorado potato beetle continued to be unusually abundant in the 
Middle Atlantic States westward to Illinois, and an unusual outbreak of 
this insect was reported from northwestern Iowa. 
The potato aphid is much more abundant on potatoes and tomatoes on the 
eastern shore of Maryland and Virginia than usual. This insect is also 
reported as being very abundant in Indiana and Ohio. 
The Mexican bean beetle is causing serious damage in Hartford County, 
Conn., and became so numerous in parts of Hew Jersey that the supply of 
insecticides for their control was exhausted. 
The asparagus beetle was very troublesome from Connecticut westward 
to Iowa, complete devastation talcing place at many points. This insect 
is also becoming a serious pest in Colorado and California. 
Throughout practically the entire country, from Hew England to Florida 
and westward to Iowa and Nebraska, the striped cucumber beetle is being re- 
ported as unusually destructive. 
From central Ohio westward to Wisconsin the pea aphid is so abundant 
that the pea crop is seriously threatened. 
The potato tuber worm was found attacking tobacco at several places in 
Kentucky during the third week in June. This is said to be the first record 
of the occurrence of this insect in that State. 
A very heavy emergence of Brood V of the periodical cicada is reported 
from the upper end of Long Island. The occurrence of Brood V in Hew York 
State was first definitely established by 77. T. Davis in 1914, although 
there are a few old records of this brood 1 s appearing there in 1897. 
Canker worms have defoliated large areas of forest lands in the Red Eiver 
Valley of North Dakota and are much more numerous than usual in parts of 
Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, and Kansas. 
The elm leaf beetle is prevalent in southern Hew England and is appearing 
in large numbers in Rhode Island. 
We wish to call the attention of our readers to a mistake in pagination 
in the last number of the Survey Bulletin. Page 237 should be 235; page 238 
should be 237, and page 23S should be 238. 
