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TRUCK-CROP INSECTS 
VEGETABLE WEEVIL ( l-istroderer, obliguus Gyll.) 
South Carolina. W. J. Reid (May lk) : The vegetable weevil has been discovered 
at Charleston. (Det. "by L. L. Buchanan.) 
Georgia. T. L. Bissell (May U) : Potatoes are heavily infested "by devils in 
a farm gar dm at Orchard Hill. (May 6); I have found L. obliguus at five 
prints in and near Orchard Hill and Milncr, over an area 5 miles by h. 
We have scouted six ether counties, one or two localities to the county, 
in a ring around the aroa, without finding further infestations. (Det. by 
L. L. Buchanan.) 
California. A. C. Eleury (April 30): Tho vegetable weevil has been found in 
Santa Ana Canyon about half a mile across the Riverside County line and 
so far as I know this is the only place where it occurs in Riverside County. 
It was found there on wild growth and is far away from any vegetable- 
growing area, 
D. T. Prendcrgast (May 27): On May 15, the vegetable weevil was ob- 
served seriously injuring tomatoes 11 miles south of Tracy, acrosr- the line 
in Stanislaus County. This is the first record of the appearance of this 
weevil in this area. 
A CAMEL CRICKET ( Daihinia br»vip^ s Hald.) 
Oklahoma. C. P. Stiles (May 21): The California camel cricket has been re- 
ported damaging gardens and truck crops in Kingfisher, Garfield, and Till- 
man Counties. This insect was reported in 1932 as being present in large 
numbers in Harmon County. Since then it has again been reported from Har- 
mon, Ellis, Roger Mills, and Jackson Counties. It has been definitely- 
proved that this insect feeds on vegetation, 
MOLE CRICKETS ( Scapteriscus spp.) 
llcrth Carolina and South Carolina. W. A. Thomas (May): Mole crickets, S. 
acl^tus R. & H. , and S. vicinus Scudd. , have been serious pests in tobacco 
seed bods throughout the South Carolina tobacco b^lt, which includes sever- 
al border counties in North Carolina. Although isolated instances of in- 
jury hare boon noted during the past 2 years, this is the first time the 
rail* cricket has boen considered a serious seed-bed pest in this particu- 
lar territory. 
SEED CORN MAGGOT (Hyl^myia cili cr ura Rond. ) 
Iowa. C. J. Drake (May 23): Many scattered reports of ianage to seed corn, 
melon, and other seeds have come in this spring. The maggot is fairly 
common in the onion-growing districts of eastern Iowa. 
