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TRUCK-CROP INSECTS 
VEGETABLE WEEVIL (li stroderes o bl iguus Gyll . ) 
0. T. Deen (May 22): Considerable damage was done to turnips 
by defoliation of the tops at Foley. Adults and larvae were 
found on this date . 
M. M. High (May 27): The vegetable weevil has recently been 
found in 7 additional counties in Alabama, which are as follows: 
Tuscaloosa, Pickens, Greene, Sumter, Marengo, and Choctaw. It 
is now known to occur in 19 counties. 
v 17): Adults of the vegetable weevil were 
26 as injuring tomatoes near Jackson, 
few complaints have been received in regard 
- -1 during the prst few weeks as compared 
complaints received early in the spring, 
ity was re-ported as seriously injured by the 
ay 22. Tomatoes and Irish potatoes were re- 
nt en up" by the weevils on April 27 at Her- 
R. ?. T . Harned (Ma 
rc-oortcd on April 
(May 23): Only a 
to the vegetable v. 
with the number of 
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adult weevils on M 
ported as being "e 
manville. Serious injury to Irish potatoes was reported from 
Lexington on May 4 and to tomatoes at Taylorsville on May 11. 
SLSL CORN MAGGOT ( Hylemyia eilicrura Pond.) 
E. N. Cory (May 6): Some reports on beans ha.ve been received. 
A. G. Ruggles and assistants (May): The seed corn maggot is 
moderately abundant at Crosby and in the eastern part of Polk 
County, but is scarce over the remaining southern third of the 
State. 
C.J. Drake (May 20): The seed corn maggot is quite abundant 
over the State. A few fields of corn are damaged each year, 
and onions are also attacked. 
•J. W. McColloch (April 20): Maggots, apparently of this 
species, received from Paola with the information that they 
were destroying a planting of watermelons. 
A LEAFEOPPER ( Eomalodisca sp . ) 
K. L. Cockerham (May 24): Both nymphs and adults of this in- 
sect have been more numerous in Biloxi this spring than I have 
ever seen anywhere. They are found on practically all garden 
truck, although I do not know to what extent they are injuring 
the various crops. I have caught as many as 12 adults on one 
gladiolus spike and similar numbers on other crops such as 
corn, beans, and Irish potatoes. 
