TRUCK-CROP INSECTS 
BANDED CUCUMBER BEET IE (Diabrotica baitaeta 
Lee . ; 
Alabama K. L. Gockerham (September 20): These beetles were*very 
abundant at this date on snap beans and sweet potatoes at 
St. Elmo . In fact, I have not seen them so plentiful dur- 
ing the entire year. 
GREEN- JUNE BEL TIE ( Cotinis nitida L. ) 
Mississippi R. "7. Earned (September 23): Larvae were reported on 
September 17 as abundant in gardens at Prentiss. 
LESSEE CORN STALK BORER ( Siasmopaluus iignosellus Zell.) 
North Carolina C. K. Erannon (September): Snap beans in Currituck County 
arc considerably damaged. 
.'. A. Thomas (August 30): The larvae have been unusually 
destructive to late corn and beans during the past month. 
Rather -.rides :read damage to the tender buds of young straw- 
berry plants has occurred recently in the Chadbourn district. 
It nov ap >ears that the strawberry trouble locally known as 
: ' dead cro* t." in young plants is partly traceable to the work 
of this insect. 
South Carolina !\I . H. Branson (September 24): Moderately abundant in beans 
at Luray and Clomson College. 
Mississippi R. 7. Hamed (September 23): Severe injury to pea plants 
was observed at Shannon on September 11. 
SOUTHERN GREEN STIIJX BUG ( Nczara viridula L. ) • 
Mississippi R. 7. Earned (September 23): Injury to lima beans at 
Hattiesburg "as reported on September 4 and injury to peas 
and lima beans at Natchez va.z reported on September 16. 
GARDEN SLUG ( .-.~ri oiimax a .rcstis L. ) 
.Wisconsin E. L. Chambers (September I): Slugs have been unusually 
abundant throughout the State this summer, especially during 
the past two weeks, doing serious damage to garden crops. 
A MOLE CRICEET ( Scapteriscu s sp.) 
South C a rolina M. H. Branson (September 24): Mole crickets, Scaptcriscus 
sp., are moderately abundant in fall gardens in the coastal 
section of the State. 
