Or egon 
Alabama 
Missouri 
Washington 
Alabama 
GENERAL 
STATEMENT 
TRUCK -CROP INSECTS 
MiFC?.L L^ra cus f eeders 
GARDEN SLUG ( Agriolimax agrestis L.) 
A, L. Lovatt (1923.19^): This slug is always a serious 
pest of gardens and ornamentals, but destructiveness to 
field crops appears on the increase. Vetch is heavily- 
attacked, as ere targier peas and clover. No real check 
or. losses, but injury is general and in occasional fields 
very high, being practically present all winter and air the 
present time at Junction City, Corvallis, and western 
Oregon. 
CABBAGE 
C ABB AGE WEBWORM (Hellu ia undalis Fab. ) 
E. L. Thomas ( March 20): One adult observed on March 8. 
STRAWBERRY 
STRAWBERRY CROtfN-EOREE ( Tyloderroa fragariae Riley) 
L, Haseman (March 3 3): Inspectors report many fields held 
up dire to last year's brcol of bore 1 "-;- in southwestern 
Missouri. No records taken on overwintering adults at this 
time. 
STRAWBERRY ROOT WEEVIL (Brachyr hJnus ovatus L.) 
J. E 4 Graf (March 1): Letter from R, D a Bodle Company, 
Seattle, Washington,, dated February 21, advising in part 
that in their vicinity some four tc five thousand acres 
of strawberries are produced, and nearly all of them are 
affected v^ith the strawberry root-weevil. They have done 
everything to try and get rid of them, but with no success. 
STRAWBERRY ROCT LOUSE (Aphis forbesi Weed. J' 
F. L. Thomas (March 20): Eggs of this insect hatched by 
the middle of February. 
BEANS 
MEXICAN BEAN BEETLE (_Epi3 achna corru pta Muls.) 
Neale F, Howard (1922-1 923): The records of the spread 
of the Mexican bean beetle for the past reason have been 
obtained almost entirely through the cooperation cf the State 
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