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GENSRAL FEEDERS 
ASIATIC BEETLE Unomala orientalis Waterh.) 
GENERAL STATEMENT 
Official Record Vol. 7, No, 16 (April 18): The Asiatic 
beetle has been doing an increasing amount of damage 
in Connecticut and southern Long Island, The State of 
Connecticut and this department are engaged in a coopera- 
tive control' project which is aimed especially sit re- 
ducing infestations in tie vicinity of New Haven, Conn,, 
where the insect was discovered several years ago. The 
larvae of the beetle feed on the roots of grasses and 
other plants and cause complete destruction of sod on 
lawns, and also injure certain perennial plants, iris, 
peony, and phlox among them. The Asiatic beetle is re- 
lated to the Japanese beetle and its life history is 
somewhat similar. In the control project the treatment 
resorted to involved the application of carbon-disulphide 
emulsion to the soil, as is done in the control of Japanese 
beetle larvae in lawns, I n all, 366 properties covering 
about 43 acres were treated. Thirty- eight thousand pounds 
of concentrated carbon- disulphude emulsion and more than 
800,000 gallons of water were used. The treatment of the 
soil has been very effective in reducing the number of 
grubs throughout the area. Several of the parasites im- 
ported from the Orient which are effective on the Japanese 
beetle are also effective on the Asiatic beetle, and a 
number of species have been released in the heavily 
infested areas on Long Island. 
Connecticut 
B, B« Friend (April 24): Larvae came to surface of soil 
and resumed feeding a week ago, about two weeks earlier 
than last ydsar at New Haven. Abundance as compared with 
average ye^r appears to be about the same. 
WHITE GRUBS ( Phyllopha ga spp. ) 
Missouri 
L» Has:eman (April 27): The common species of June beetles 
had been abundant just under the soil since the 15th 
of the month but owing to the cool temperature they have 
not begun to emerge or come to the lights at night. Their 
larvae appear less abundant in diggings than was the case 
a year ago. 
CEREAL AND F R A 8 1 -. C R P INSECTS 
WHEAT 
ARMY CUTWORM (Chorizagrotis auxiliaris Grote) 
Kansas 
J. W, McDolloch (April 5): Cutworm injury to wheat is 
reported from Jennings, Wellington, Whitewater, and 
