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Mlnne sota C E. Mickel (July 15) ' Aphis rumicis i3 causing considerable 
damage to string "beans gr<^m for canning in one of tho irerathern 
co-unties o$ the State. About 200 acres are affected. 
SALT MAHSH CATERPILLAR ( Estigmene acraea Dsayy) 
Mississippi . H» 7f. Harned (July 15): Insects identified as probably the 
salt-marsh caterpillar were reported as injuring beans at Moss 
Point in Jackson Count.y on June 26. 
SEED CORK MaGGOT. ( Evlemvia cili crura Rond. ) 
New York C. R. ■ Crosby and assistant s:,~ -A great deal of damage has resulted 
on the early planted beans' in Yates County. Three fields" 
. - . observed Trill be dragged up and many others are going to have a 
poor stand. In Wayne County a large number:, of bean plantings 
were seriously injured and many growers had to drag up the crop 
and replant. 
Hew Mexico J. R. Douglass (June 30): The seed corn maggot has caused damage 
to bean plantings in the foothill region west of the Estancia 
Valley where the fields lay. idle last season. Larvae, pupae, and 
adults can be found at this time. 
MEXICAN BEAN BEETLE' (S pilachna cornrpta Muls. ) 
North Carolina R. W. Leiby (July l6) : It nor/ appears that the bean beetle 
is more destructive in the upper. Piedmont section of the State 
than in the mountain section. On July 19 it was reported in 
Caswell County, one county east of its known distribution for 
the season of 1925. 
Indian^ . ■ J, J. Davis (July 26): Numerous reports of the Mexican bean 
beetle have come from the southeastern part of the State. There 
is only one authentic' record outside of the area known to have 
been infested in 1925- The new infestation is at Frankfort and 
considerably out of the previously known infested area. 
SOUTHERN GREEN STINK BUG ( Hezara viridula L. ) 
Florida 2?. S. . Chamberlin (July 22): "Young bugs are very numerous and 
are doing considerable damage in some of the bean fields in 
Gadsden County. 
APPLE LEaEHOPPER ( Empoasca mali Le3.) 
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North Carolina E. P... Met calf (July): This insect has been very bad on cotton, 
potatoes, garden beans, soybeans, and peanuts, in the eastern 
two-thirds of the State. 
Indiana J» J. Davis (July 26): The bean leafhopper, Enrpoasca sp^was 
reported damaging beans at Paoli on June 23. 
