oFiors 
ONI OH MAGGOT ("vlimvia artier^ Mei.Q 
Mississippi R e W. Earned (Match 27): On February 1c D. W„ Grimss reverted 
a 75 per cent infestation of what he h? s identified as the 
onion 'maggot at Leland. He reports verji severe damage, 
ONION THRI PS ( Thri-ps ta baci I.) 
Texas F % L. Thomas (March 27): Complaints of the onion thrips have 
been -ah oat as usual. It is abundant in the lower Sio Grande 
Valley. 
CUTWORMS (Noctuidae) 
Texas F. C. Bishopp (March 22): Cutworms are reported to be 
" causing considerable damage to onions that are being growl 
from sets on a considerable scale in this vicinity (Selina). 
LETTUCE 
•' BLACK CUTWORM (Agrotis vpsilon Rott. ) 
Idaho Claude Walceland (March 19): A moth of this species was 
reared from a cutworm that did heavy injury to head lettuce 
last fall at Parma. It lived within the head and destroyed 
the market value of all heads attacked. 
GRESN PEaCH APHID ( Myzus persicae- Sulz. ) 
Mississippi R* W« Earned (March 27): Myzus -persic ae Sulz. was reported 
by T . F* McGeh.ee as damaging lettuce and turnips at Holly 
Springs during February and March. 
SOWBUGS (species undetermined) 
Louisiana J -bert Spencer (March 15"): So "bugs (species not determined) 
have appeared in vegetable gardens and in flower gardens 
around Baton Rouge and Columbia, and have done some damage. 
Their appearance is usual at this time of the year, I under- 
stand. 
CARROTS 
BYT5RA 3?.? . 
California £„ L. Urbahns (March 5): Attention was called to carrot 
field in truck gardens in San -Jose badly infested with 
greenish insect larvae. Field visited together with Horticul- 
tural Commissioner showed larvae and pupae of large curculienid 
probably- Hypera sp. present in abundance. Adults not located. 
Larvae of stages half grown or more '-ere destroying crowns of 
plant's. 
