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WESTERN SPOTTED, CUCUMBER- BEETLE ( Diabrotica soror L . ) 
' T. R. Chamberlin (April 30): Countless thousands of these 
beetles, deposited along fence rows near Eorest Grove by- 
flood. waters of March 31 and April 1, were sprinkled with 
distillate and burned on the. morning of April 2 before they 
had. begun -to:. leave/.- ' ; Practically all were females and full 
of eggs. It is estimated that from 80 to 90 per- cent were 
destroyed in the burned areasi " 
FLEA BEETLES (Halt i.c inae ) . ■ . 
Weekly News Letter, New York State College of Agriculture 
(May): Flea beetles (several species) were causing a good 
deal of injury to seedling cabbage plants in Ontario County 
on May 11. , 
Weekly News Letter, New Jersey State .College of Agriculture 
(May) :. These insects are so "numerous on truck ..crops in the 
southern part of the State that growers are spraying to protect, 
their crops from injury. (Abstract J. A. H.) ' 
L. Haseman (May .23): P. H. Johnson reports the horseradish 
flea beetle ( Phyllotreta armoraciae Koeh) quite abundant in 
St Louis County on horseradishes May 22.. Larvae in leaf 
stocks measure:",'. from '3 to -4 mm., in length. 
R. W. Earned (May): Flea beetles are apparently not unusually 
abundant. Reports have been received during the- month of damage 
to eggplant in Stone County, to sweet potato in Adams County, 
and to tomatoes in Jefferson County. 
..SEED CORN .MAGGOT ( Hylemyia cilicrura Rond.) 
H. G. Walker (May 25): The seed corn maggot has been 
excessively abundant this spring on bean and cucumber seed near 
Norfolk. Many fields had to be replanted. Some damage also 
occurred to corn. 
Illinois 
Kentucky 
W. P. Flint (May 19): The seed corn maggot has recently been 
reported from a nunber of points in Illinois injuring corn and 
beans. 
W. A. Price (May 25): The seed corn maggot is moderately 
abundant and was reported as damaging corn at Horse Cave and 
Paris, 
Missouri 
L. Haseman (May 23): The seed corn maggot badly- damaged corn, 
beans, and melon seeds in the forepart of the month in south**-* - 
eastern and north central Missouri. 
