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TURIII? 
TURNIP ApEII ( ^:o-d};n::u^ •'. g ' : '- v: obre ssic^e Ttvis) 
Virginia. G. Z. Gould (October 23): Ihe- turnip i ... Is abundant 
turnip, rutabaga, rape, and mustard in the Norfolk district. 
CARROT 
CARROT p£yiL ( Li strong tus latjuscvlus Boh.) 
New York C, R. Crosby (October): Seme slight injury noted in the 
western" part of Suffolk County. (77. G. Been) 
SPINACH 
A NEGRO BUG ( Pangaeus uhleri Sign.) 
Virginia G. 1. Gould (October 23): A very unusual type of injury was 
observed in September b§ a small black burrower bug. These 
insects were attacking the newly-sprouted spinach seed in the 
Norfolk district and would kill the plant before the cotyledons 
could push through the soil, .cter a plant v.as t:.. . . . :1 . soil, 
the bugs would not interfere with it. Often the insects, both 
nymphs end adults or both, would cluster around a sec-d and roll 
it away . They were first discovered September 10 and disappeared 
about October 1, They were so numerous in one field that the 
entire 43 acres had to be resown. 
~~; .illAH I — T iB-70RLi ( Byfrenia ic scialic Cram.) 
Virginia „"-. _. 3-culd ( October 23): The Hawaiian beet webwora is pres .'. 
on spinach throughout tie Norfolk region. Little c 
observed from this insect, but the moths are abundant in the fields, 
B^ET LEAFHOP] R ( Eutettix tenellus Baker) 
Utah G. F. Knowlton (October 20): Beet J.eafhoppers are becoming 
less abundant in the sugar-beet fields of northern Utal . 
from curly- top has been severe in many pcrts o: .his State , 
tonnages are low in the severely affected ar s, 
