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Mississippi H. \7« Earned (July 1Z) • On June 2S specimens of the common 
squash hug infesting squash plants \?ere received from Copiah, 
Grenada, and Leflore Counties. 
ONIONS 
CrtEHOT RUST FLY (Psila rosae Fah . ) 
New York C» R* Croshy and assistants: Every onion field examined in this 
locality (Williamson) wa.s infested "by this pest, considerable 
damage being done in some instances, 
ONION MAGGOT (Kylemyia antiqua Meig.) 
New York C« R» Crosby and assistants: Every onion field examined in 
this locality (Williamson) was infested by this pest, consider- 
able damage being done in some instances. At Elba, seedlings, 
bulbs, and seed onions are all being attacked by this pest 
and considerable loss is being realized. 
J. J, Davis (July 26): The onion maggot has been reported 
destructive at Knox and Ke^vanna, in addition to the regions 
reported in the last bulletin. 
R. H. Fettit (July 2): Onion maggots are the worst we have 
ever seen them in East Lansing; in fact, this seems to be 
the year for maggots of all kinds. 
LESSOR BULB FLY ( Eumerus strigatns Fallen) 
New York E« P. Felt (July 29): The lunate onion fly was taken at 
Garden City and Westbury, L. I., in early July and is apparently 
rather generally established, since the flies in each locality 
were found after but a few minutes' search. 
Indiana 
Michigan 
BEET'S 
BEET './EB'.VORM ( Loxosture sticticalis L.) 
Minnesota C« E. Mickel (July 15): Large numbers of the sugarbeet webvrom 
have been reported f rom Redwood , Lyon, and Stevens Counties 
in this State. Apparently the first brood has done very little 
injury to sugar boets, having fed principally on P.ussin thistles 
and lamb's-quarters. The ^orms caused considerable alarm among 
the farmers, however, when they became about t-vo-thirds grown 
and started to migrate in armies. In passing through cornfields 
they devoured the lower leaves of the corn plants and for a 
time the farmers feared that the corn crop was going to be taken 
by the worm. No serious damage wis done, however. 
New Mexico J. R. Douglass (June 30):' There have been three outbreaks of th 
beet v^ebworm in the EgtartCia Valley ^ithin the last ten days. 
This is the first season since 19-3 that the r/orms have occurred 
