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GREEN STINKBUG ( Nezara viridula L. ) 
Alabama. J. M. Robinson (June 19): The green stink bug on June 15 was reported 
as playing havoc with beans and peas at Ozark. Other crops were seriously 
damaged. 
Mississippi. C. Lyle (June 2U): A correspondent at Lexie sent to this office 
specimens collected on beans on June 9« 0. L. Bond at Moss Point reports 
that they are more numerous and are causing more trouble than he has ever 
known. He states that they were found on June 12, attacking cotton, okra, 
watermelon, and cantaloup vines, and that an acre of corn and beans nearby 
had been completely destroyed by them. Mr. Bond also found them in Jack- 
son County on June 15 injuring beans and tomatoes. 
FALSE CHINCH BUG (Nysius ericae Schilli) 
Utah. H. E. Dorst (June 25)? Nymphs and adults are moving from maturing blis- 
ter cress ( Cheirinia repanda ) to adjacent sugar beets and are causing se- 
vere injury to the beets that have not already been destroyed by flea 
beetles and beet leafhoppers in Sevier Valley, 
Arizona. K, B. McKinney (June 15) S False chinch bugs have been very scarce 
throughout the Salt River Valley this spring. Usually the nymphs become 
very annoying when the wild mustard dries and they begin. migrating, 
. . GARDEN CENTIPEDE ( Scutigerella immaculata Newp. ) 
Utah.. G. P. Knowlton (June 17 ) : Garden centipedes are damaging strawberry 
plants and apparently other young garden plants on one- farm at Pleasant 
Grove in Utah County. 
California. A. E. Michelbacher (June 21): In the delta district of the Sacra- 
mento and San Joaquin Rivers the garden centipede has caused considerable 
damage. In certain fields the population is building up rapidly. Two 
fields were surveyed on June 17 and 18 and the estimated -number of garden 
centipedes per acre based on those actually recovered from samples was 
10,000,000. A large number of the individuals recovered were first- and 
second- stage larvae. 
POTATO AND TO MATO 
VEGETABLE WEEVIL ( Listroderes obliguus Zlug) 
California. R. E. Campbell (June lU): In an 80- acre field of tomatoes south of 
ChinoY San Bernardino County, 100 <$> of the plants, just after being trans- 
planted into the field, were attacked by vegetable weevils and caused 
enough damage to require 90 $ replanting,. This field had a cover crop of 
mustard on which the larvae developed in numbers. After the cover crop was 
plowed under and the field was planted to tomatoes the 'adults concentrated 
on the latter in large numbers. 
