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SPITTLE INSECT? (Cercopidae) 
Oregon A. L. Lovett . "This season they are strikingly abundant on 
both strawberries and cane fruits. They occur mostly about 
the crown of strawberries and about the base of the canes on 
loganberries. No really serious injury is apparent as yet 
in spite of their extraordinary numbers ." 
ASPARAGUS 
ASPARAGUS BEETLE ( Crioceris asparagi L.) 
Massachusetts J. B. Boston (June 10) . "This insect is worse than ever. 
Chickens do good work but spraying is unsatisfactory. The 
crop is seriously injured in Barnstable County." 
H. A. Mostrom (May 15). "Larvae are present and doing damage 
in unsprayed fields in Essex County." 
New York C. R. Crosby and assistants. "The corrmon asparagus beetle 
is serious in Chautauqua, Orange, and Nassau Counties." 
Ohio H. A. Gossard (Hay 26). "Asparagus beetle larvae were appear- 
ing at Chillicothe during the third week of May." 
Colorado C. P. Gillette (June 2l). "This insect was introduced in 
gardens at Boulder several years ago but only within the 
last year or two have complaints begun to corre to this office 
of its appearance in gardens about Denver. The insect ray 
be considered as established in the Denver-Boulder section new." 
BEANS 
MEXICAN BEAN BEETLE ( Epilachna corrupt a Muls.) 
Tennessee J. A. Kennedy (June 22). "This insect is eating up garden 
beans, entirely destroying a field in a few days at Dayton." 
Miss M. Adsmend (June 19). "A new kind of weevil that has 
only been in this State a couple of years is destroying green 
beans. They multiply very fast and are about to destroy the 
bean crop at Spencer." 
H. W, Andrews (June 16). "The Mexican bean beetle is doinf 
a great deal of damage at Sparta and in adjoining counties." 
Alabama W. E. Hinds (June 19). "The Mexican bean beetle is increasing 
very rapidly and the damage is likely to equal that of 1921 
when it amounted to 75 or 80 per cent of the normal yield of 
table beans in the Birmingham area." 
