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Ohio 
Indiana 
Iowa 
T. H. Parks (June 23):These aphids are becoming very plentiful 
on the foliage of ootato and tOTato in central and restern 
counties. Some damage is. in prospect. This is the heaviest 
out "break- since 1917. _ N 
J. J. Davfs (June 24): 'Aphids were reported unusually &bxias£j&t 
on tomato, June 17 to 22, at Frankfort, Matthews, Indianapolis, 
and kokomrqi* 
POTATO LSAFHOPPER ( Etrpoasea fabae Harr. ) 
H, E. Jaques (June): Potato leafhoppdrs stre very abundafct 
in Audubon, Buchanan, and Washington Counties. 
BEANS 
New York 
New Jersey 
MEXICAN BEAN BEETLE ( Epilachna frorrn-.p-t* Muls. ) 
Connecticut N. Turner (June 23): The Mexican bean beetle is present in 
every county in the State and the overwintering adults are 
causing serious damage in Fairfield County. In one place in 
. Hartford County, near the Massachusetts State line,, serious 
damage was noted. The beetles destroyed late beans there last 
year. In the rest of the State the beetle is present in sirall 
nurrbers and causes little damage at .present. At the present tiire 
second- ins tar larvae are present in the southern part of the State, 
H. C. Huckett (June 15): The Mexican bean beetle is becoming 
very noticeable at Riverhead. 
N. J. State Coll. of Agr. , Weekly* News Letter (June): During 
the first week in June Mexican bean beetles appeared in nurrbers 
in practically all parts of the State. On June 3 the first eggs 
were noticed in' Cumberland, On June 4 eggs were reported from 
Camden C ounty, and on June 20 the first eggs were observed in 
northern Jersey in Morris County. These insects became so 
destructive that by the middle of the month the stock of mag- 
nesium arsenate in the hands of many dealers was exhausted, 
(Abstract, J.A.H. ) 
Maryland E. N. Cory (June 26): In the upper section of Anne Arundel 
County beans have . . very light, spotted infestation with 
last stage larvae, 
Virginia G. E. Gould (June 24): The Mexican bean beetle is moderately 
abundant this season and appears to be causing slightly more 
damage than last year. The first adult beetles of the first 
brood ore now starting to appear. In our hibernation studies 
we obtained an average survival of 45 per cent from four cages 
located in different types of ™oods. A cage in a pure pine woods 
had the best survival, with 69 per cent living through the winter. 
