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HOUSE PLANTS 
A BLACK-HEADED MAGGOT (Seiara hastata Johan.) 
Nebraska II, K. Swenk (April 16): In a case of reported injury to house 
plants by small bluik maggots , the culprit when reared proved to 
be a Sciara, probably S_. h as t at a. Johan. 
SOT'BUG t Araadillidium -Ail; are Latr.) 
Texas F. C. Bishopp (April 23): Reports of s-owbug injury to young garden 
stuff and flowers have been received recently from Dallas. 
TULIP 
CUTHORMS (Noctuidae) 
Idaho D. B. Whelan (April 6): Cut off tulips as fast as they core 
through the ground. 
LILIES 
^-MARKED CUTWORM (Noctua clandestina Harr.) 
Indiana H. F. Dietz (April 18): The TJ-marked cutworm has been found in 
a small planting of Madonna lilies at Indianapolis , eating off the 
heavy flowering stalks, which are at this time about 6 inches high. 
The entire plant is therefore ruined for the season and a few 
insects can do serious damage all out of proportion to their numbers. 
CHRYSANTHEMUM 
CHRYSANTHEMUM GALL MIDGE ( Diarthronomvia hvoogaea F. Loew) 
Indiana H. F. Dietz (April 23): A number of serious infestations of the 
chrysanthemum gall midge have been found in Indiana greenhouses 
during February and March. These have been the result of the 
buying of a large number of plants during the spring of 1922 on 
the part of Indiana florists. The plarts came from widely separated 
parts of the United States and for the most part were new varieties. 
Most of the outbreaks occurred in greenhouses that had previously 
been freed of the midge and in which no midges were found in 1920 
or 1921. Several cases, however, occurred in greenhouses that had 
never before been infested because the florists had not bought any 
stock since 1917, until the spring of 1922. All outbreaks this year 
were eradicated by spraying the plants with black leaf 40 1 fluid 
ounce} fish-oil soap, 4 ounces; and water, 4 gallons, every three 
days over a period of six weeks. 
FOREST AND SHADE-TREE INSECTS 
MISCELLANEOUS FEEDERS 
GIPSY MOTH ( Porthetria dispar L.) 
Masaachusetts A. I* Bourne (April 23): There appear to be fewer gipsy moths than 
during the last few years. 
