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Nebraska. M. H. Swenk-(June 22): Squash bugs damaging pumpkin vines were the 
subject of complaint by a Sarpy County correspondent on Juno 14. 
Kansas. H. R. Bryson (Juno i?) : The squash bugs are plentiful wherever 
squashes or punpkins are being grown. Reported abundant at Ottawa and 
Manhattan. 
California. R. E. Campbell (Juno l): Adults have been observed in fields 
of banana and Hubbard squash in the S a n Fernando Valley. 
(June 20): At El Monte, Los Angeles County, squash bugs are attacking 
cream squash and table queon squash, varieties which in previous years 
have been immune to attack. 
MELONS 
MELON APHID ( Aphis gossvpii G-lov.) 
Kansas. H. R. Bryson (June 25): Reported abundant at Neosho Falls, in south- 
eastern Kansas. 
California. R. E. Campbell (June 2): This aphid was causing considerable 
trouble last week in the Turlock-Merced area, in central California. 
PICKLEWORM ( Diaphania nitidalis Stal) 
Mississippi. C. Lyle (June 2U): G. L. Bond of Moss Point reports pickleworm 
damaging cantaloups in that section of the State. They are appearing 
in numbers at State College. 
Louisiana. C. 0. Eddy (June): The pickleworm, attacking cucumbers, has been 
sent in from Allen Parish. 
ASPARAGUS 
ASPARAGUS 3EETLE ( Crioceris asparagi L.) 
Massachusetts. A. L. Bourne (June 2h) : Asparagus beetles appeared slightly 
later than usual and were considerably less abundant than they were last 
year in western Massachusetts, where they were a more s ''rious pest than 
they had been for many years. 
New Y rk. R. W. Leiby (May and June): In western New York the common 
asparagus beetle is heavily parasitized by a hymenopteron, Totrastichus 
asparagi Crawf., in Monroe, Wayne, and Oswego Counties. 
Idaho. R. W. Haogele (June 22): This is the first record of the occurrence 
of the asparagus beetle in Idaho. It was taken in gardens at Nampa, 
Canyon County. 
Utah. G-. F. Knowlton (June h) : Larvae have been abundant at Clearfield and 
Roy wherever control measures were not applied. The predator Perillus 
bioculatus F. has been observed to feed on the larvae at Riverdale. 
