-284- 
Iowa 
Louisiana 
Oregon 
Kentucky 
Iowa 
South Dakota 
Wyoming 
T R U.C K-.-CROP INSECTS 
SPOTTED CUCUMBER BEETLE (Diabrotica duo de c iirpunc t at a Fab. ) 
C. J. Drake (June 27:) The first specimens appeared in Ames May 
22. : In going over our records we find that during the past six 
years it has put in its first appearance during the last ten dayg 
of May. , . . 
H. E. Jaques (June 4): The spotted cucumber beetle has just 
recently made its appearance in our collections for this spring, 
the earliest date "feeing June 3 for southeastern Iowa. 
W. A. Douglas (May 27): A farmer left specimens of the south- 
ern corn root worm' with the report that ''"his insect was doing 
a lot of injury to his rice. 
WESTERN SPOTTED CUCUMBER 3EETLE ( Diabrotica soror Lee. ) 
D. C. ¥ te (June 20): B. G. Thompson reports that first adults 
of the second brood ^ere obtained in breeding cages at Corvallis, 
but none in the field as yet. T. R. Chamberlin reports first 
larvae found in the field in Washington County on May 12. These 
were in seedling clover and from 3 to 6 mm. long. On May 21 eggs 
were being laid in seedling Polygonum' on overflow land from Hiich 
the water had recently been drawn. Beetles were very numerous on 
the damp earth, especially among the seedlings, upon which they 
were feeding extensively. 
BLISTER BEETLES (Meloidae) 
W. A. Price (June 25): Blister beetles are doing much damage 
to potatoes at Tyner, Grayson, and Kings^ood. 
C. J. Drake (June 27): Blister beetles, Epicauta - cinerea " Forst; , 
are extremely abundant and widely distributed in the State. A 
large number of telephone calls and letters have been received 
from farmers and county agents asking about remedial measures. 
The beetles seem to be most abundant in alfalfa fields and are 
doing considerable damage to alfalfa and a number of other plants. 
H. C. Severin (June 10): Blister beetles are reported as 
causing' severe damage to alfalfa, beans, peas, caragana, and 
potatoes in the eastern and central part-gof the State. 
C. L. Corkins (June 23): Coincident with the rise in grasshopper 
population, an outbreak of the blister beetle Epicauta vittata 
Fab. has been reported by C. H. Llewellyn, County Agent from 
Sheridan Co\inty, where severe damage is being done' to trees, 
especially the Siberian pea tree. 
Ha 
-J 
