UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA 
Illinoi 
Kansas 
Illinois 
Kansas 
r37S- 
3 1262 09085 3713 
Kiey SW arjB into dwellings, ' schocl houses, tome times completely cov- 
ering the electrical fixtures and ether objects suspended iron: the 
ceilings, also crawling into beds, en 
numbers hrve 
CTC-aRZTTS 2B2TLB ( La sioderma serricorr.e Tab. ) 
T7. P, Flint (October 17): The cigarette beetle has been reported 
as damaging upholstered furniture in the homes and in r tores. Thi~ 
pestsf. iG tecomin ^ one of our ;n ost commonly reported household 
J. ::. McCoilodi (October 17): The cigarette beetle is giving a lot 
of trouble in a furniture store at' Abil-.ne. 
M. 3. Kungerford (September 30): The cigarette beetle has been re- 
ported attacking upholstered furniture at Olathc. 
POTHER POSE 3SSTLES (L.-ctuc 
STO. 
?. Hiitt ( Oct o cor 17): Several- east 
of injury by the larvae of 
a beetle to telephone plugs have been reported from east-central 
Illinois, ..his injury is caused by the eating off of the lead 
tongue inside the fuse plug, nd having the sane effect as blowins 
the plug. ' & 
J. !7. McColloch (October 5): Severe- injury, especially to lath. M 
is reported in a house in Johnson County, ' 
Sfeferdjgka i-. r. Sverk (September 2_^etobcr £5) > Stored-grain pests have 
been less troublesome than usual during the present fall, though 
a few complaints of infestations of stored wheat and shelled C cr« 
have oeen received from various parts of the State. 
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D/iTuC IIi.-iL ITQHM ( ?c:iobrio ocsc-urus Fab. ) 
.*. HcCollcch (October 11 }: The dark meal -.xr>n was found abund- 
in an ear of corn ot St. Francis. 
RICE TJEE7IL 
dondra oryza L. ) 
"° rth .. k - - c "- (October lh) : Fro- letters received it -ould nnro^r 
u*rolina that tnc rice -eovil is more abundant thai usual in the wheat 
p of to stern Forth Carolina. 
