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STRAT7BERRY 
Arkansas. W. J. Baerg (May 25): The strawberry root aphid ( Aphis forte si Weed) : 
and the cornfield ant ( Lasius ni^er americanus Emery) literally dug up 
strawberry plants and prevented runners from sending down roots. 
COMMON RED SPIDER ( Tetranychus telarius L.) 
New York. IT. Y. State Coll. of Agr. News Letter (May 15): Red spiders were first 
observed on strawberries in the vicinity of Riverhead, Suffolk County, on May 3, 
Texas. J. N. Roney (March 18): Red spiders were reported in moderate abundance 
attacking 1 and 2 year old strawberry plants in Galveston County. 
BEETS 
EEET LEAFHOPPER (Eutettix tenellus Bak. ) 
Utah. G. F. Knowlton (May 24): The beet leafhopper has reached the Uintah Basin, 
being taken in moderate abundance from Duchesne to Port Duchesne, and in 
smaller numbers clear across the basin. 
HOP PLEA BEETLE ( Psylliodes punctulata Melsh.) 
Utah. G. F. Knowlton (May 22): Hop flea beetles are doing moderate damage to 
young sugar beets at Magna, Vineyard, and in some other areas. The backward 
spring has greatly retarded beet development. 
SUGAR BEET ROOT MAGGOT ( Te tan ops aldrichi Hendel) 
Utah. G. P. Knowlton (May 22): An adult fly was taken upon sugar beets at 
Vineyard. 
TOBACCO 
TOEACCO PLEA BEETLE ( Epitrix parvula Fab.) 
Virginia. L. IT. Brannon (April 14): Adults were observed injuring Irish potatoes 
for the first time during 1933 on April 14 at Churchland. The insects were 
fairly numerous in a large field of potatoes. 
North Carolina. Z. P. Metcalf (May 5): Tobacco flea beetles are very abundant. 
Owing to the excessively hot, dry weather which has greatly retarded recently 
planted tobacco, the flea beetle has clone more damage in this State than at 
any time in the last 25 years. It is reported generally from the eastern 
part of the St.-^te. 
Tennessee. G. M. Bentley (May): The tobacco flea beetle is moderately, abundant 
in eastern and middle Tennessee. 
J. U. Gilmore (May 24): The first transplr.ntings of tobacco at Clarksville 
are suffering from atout the usual amount of damage. 
Kentucky. W. A. Price (May 24): Plea beetles on tobacco have been reported from 
practically all tobacco-growing sections of the State. 
TOEACCO BUDWORM ( Heliothis virescens Fab.) 
| Florida. P. S. Chamberlain (Mpy 6): Budworms are more abundant than norr.al in 
tobacco crops in Gadsden County, tfhere the standard poison bait is properly 
applied, even the heaviest infestations are thoroughly controlled. 
