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3EETS 
CUTWORMS (Eoctuidae) 
Geo. F. Knowlton (llay 17)- Cutworms have "been doing considerable 
damage to sugar beets in the Ogden district, "but were success- 
fully controlled with poisoned bait. 
CLICK BEETLES (Elateridae) 
Geo. F. Knowlton (llay 17): The adult click-beetles were reported 
as damaging beets in the Ogden district. 
FLEa BEETLES (Halticinae) 
Geo. F. Knowlton (llay o): The black flea beetle is damaging 
young sugar beets south of Salt Lake City and down to Draper. 
(Hay 17): Flea beetles are Quite numerous this spring at Logan, 
present in all beet fields examined, but only in exceptional 
cases are they doing sufficient damage to merit the application 
of sprays. 
RHUBARB 
GREEN DOCK BEETLE (G astroidea cyanea Helsh. ) 
Don C. Mote (April): Observed on Hay 10 feeding on rhubarb at 
Gervais, Evidently about ready to lay eggs. Newly laid eggs ob- 
served on dock at Lake Labish on May 12. 
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SOUTHERN FIELD-CROP INSECTS 
COTTON 
BOLL TCEEVIL ( Anthonomus grandi s Boh. ) 
E. F. Grossman (May 22) : Continued hot dry weather has slowed 
down the emergence rate of the boll weevil from hibernation 
cages, with 11.01 per cent of 3.123 weevils emerging from 
23,437 p U t up last fall. Though weevils were found in the open 
fields on cotton seedlings as early as April 27 and Quite a wave 
emegged during the second week in May, field infestation is, at 
present, at a standstill. 
B. R. Coad (Cooperative Report April lo): At several points near 
College Station, Tex., in 190c, 1907, and I90S an average of h .o 
per cent of the weevils emerged prior to April lo. In 1925 a -t 
College Station, Tex., 3-5^ P er cent had emerged prior to April 
lo; in 192o, 2.H5 per cent, and this year 3-71 per cent had 
emerged. 
