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SUGAR BESTS 
Utah 
California 
BEET LEAFHOPPER ( Eutetti x tenellus Baker) 
G. F. Knowlton (August 20): The beet leafhopper is very 
abundant in most beet fields in northern Utah- Considerable 
late-season injury to sugar beets is evident in parts of 
northern Utah. Beets in this area vary from good to very 
poor. Late-planted beets are suffering most in ' Cache 
County. 
E. 0. Essig (July 31); Beet leafhoppers are moderately 
abundant in the Delta Region. 
Tennessee 
Tennessee 
Tennessee 
TOBACCO 
TOBACCO FLEA BEETLE ( Suitrix parvula Fab.) 
A. C. Morgan (August 13): Tobacco flea beetles are unusually 
scarce at Clarksville and last week, in helping to take the 
infestation records on 20 fields of tobacco, I did not see a 
single flea beetle. 
HOHHWORMS ( Protoparce spp.) 
A. C. Morgan (August 13): The catch of hornworm moths, at 
Clarkville as compared to previous years, may be correctly . 
estimated from records taken from a location which has been 
provided with traps for the three years 1928 to 1930. During 
1928, at this location, July 12 to August 12, 433 moths were 
caught; in the same period in 1929, 1,222 moths were caught; 
during this same period in 1930, only 101 moths were caught. 
It might be of interest to note further that from July 12 to 
July 30, in 1928, only 18 moths were caught, while during the 
same period in 1930, 51 moths were caught. From July 30 to 
A.ugust 5 the increase in the catch was about the same as in 
previous years, but from the 5th on the catch has been 
practically nothing* 
Last year an infestation record of fields outside our 
control area showed an average of 57 small worms and eggs per 50 
plants; this year the average was 11 eggs and small worms. 
Unless there are very general soaking rains, an infestation of 
eggs and worms on sucker tobacc.a can not be looked for, which 
will very greatly reduce the numbers of moths for next year. 
TOBACCO BUDWORM ( Heliothis virescens Fab.) 
A. C. Morgan (August 13): No recent tobacco budworm injury 
has been observed and while this insect is not very injurious 
here (Clarksville) commonly, it can be said to be now entirely 
absent . 
