Mississippi 
Nebraska 
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R. W. Harned (August 22): Inspector T. F. McGehee reports 
that pole beans in gardens at Ashland and Hickory Flat, which 
were found infested last year .were recently inspected and 
found to he free of these insects. 
M. H. Swenk (July 15 - August 15): Epilachna ' corrupta 
was found in Scotts Bluff County in August, 1927. It could 
not be found in either the summer of 1928 or in that of 1929 , 
but reappeared there in early Avgust of the present summer. 
Damage is decidedly local, commonly being on only a few plants 
in one part of the field, usually near the road or an 
irrigation ditch. The infested fields lie south of Lyman and 
south and east of. Morrill, in Scotts Bluff County, according 
to a recent survey made by Prof. Bon B. Whelan. 
Michigan 
PEAS 
PEA MOTH ( Laspeyresia nifcricana Steph.) 
R. H. Pettit (August 15): There seems to be an area of 
infestation in the upper peninsula of Michigan at Pickford. 
Samples of green peas just nicely ripening from a number of 
farms in Chippawa County were received today. The larvae 
are now about a quarter of an inch long. 
West Virginia 
Florida 
Ohio 
Nebraska 
MELONS 
STRIPED CUCUMBER BEETLE ( Diabrotica vittata Fab . ) 
L. M. Peairs (August 27): The striped cucumber beetle is 
very abundant in Monongalia County. 
J. R. Watson (August 25): The striped cucumber beetle is 
absent from most of Florida but very abundant in the Everglades, 
N. F. Howard (August 12): The cucumber beetle was apparently 
checked considerably in some sections but treatments to melons 
and cucumbers were necessary in others. On the whole, I would 
say that it was less injurious than in previous years. 
M. H. Swenk ^July 15 - August 15): Complaints of injury to 
cucumbers and other cucurbits continued to be received from 
southern Nebraska during July and early August. 
SQUASH 
New York 
SOUASK BUG ( Anasa tristis DeG . ) 
Weekly News Letter, N. Y. State Coll. Agr. (July 28): Squash 
bugs are doing considerable damage in gardens. 
