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Phe pecan case bearer was very injurious during the first half of 
the month in Mississippi and Texas. 
The infestation of the six- spotted mite in Florida, reported in 
the last number of the Insect Pest Survey Bulletin, is rapidly de- 
creasing, apparently owing to a fungus disease. 
By the middle of the month the striped cucumber beetle put in 
its appearance in the southern part of the Middle Atlantic States, and 
was recorded as quite generally abundant and destructive throughout the 
eastern part of the United States, westward to Nebraska, Oklahoma, and 
Mississippi. ' 
The first adult of the spotted cucumber beetle was observed in 
Maryland on April 5, and in Kansas on May 19. 
Flea beetles on truck crops occasioned considerable injury in. 
New York and New Jersey. 
During the cool weather of May the seed-corn maggot did considerable 
damage to bean and cucumber seed in Virginia, to corn and beans in 
Illinois, and to similar crops in Kentucky, Missouri, parts of Kansas, 
and Utah. 
The potato tuber worm has been unusually abundant in parts of Los 
Angeles County, Calif., this year, and was reported from stored potatoes 
at Newark, Del. 
By the middle of the month reports of serious infestation by the 
cabbage aphid were received from New Jersey, Virginia, Ohio, and Indiana. 
In some cases the infestations are suspected as having originated on 
plants shipped from the South. Very heavy infestations of cabbage ay 
the cabbage aphid were also reported from Mississippi. 
Rather heavy infestations of the harlequin bug were reported from 
the southern tip of New Jersey during the month. In the Norfolk 
district of Virginia eggs of this insect were numerous in the field 
during the last week in April, and the first nymphs were observed on 
May 12. 
The State Plant Board of Mississippi reports that the strawberry 
weevil was found seriously infesting strawberries in the southeastern 
part of the State. This is the first record of tills insect in Missis- 
sippi. 
During the last week in May the Mexican bean beetle appeared in 
the fields in the southern part of New Jersey, and on the eastern shore 
of Maryland. During the first week in the month- the insect was observed 
in the Norfolk district of Virginia. This insect is causing considerable 
damage at the present time in North Carolina and lias extended its range 
southward to Albany, Ga. . Except for the isolated infestation at 
Thomasville, Ga. , this is 37 miles south of where it was recorded last 
year. 
