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TRUCK-CROP I "SECTS 
VEGETABLE T7EEVIL ( Listroderes o bliges Gyll.) 
South Carolina. A. Lutken (April 13): About March 13 I noticed weevil larvae 
feeding in the buds of spinach in my garden at Clemson College. I enclosed 
one of the plants with wire J today three of the adults emerged. Ho larvae 
could be found on nearby turnips at the time they were found on spinach. 
(Det. L.L.Buchanan.) 
Mississippi. C. Lyle (April 22): A correspondent at Orange Grove, Jackson 
County, reported on April 10 that adults were very abundant on young tomato 
plants. Complaints of a less serious nature were received during the past 
month from Kosciusko, Attala County; Morgan City, Leflore County; and Doss- 
ville, Leake County. 
WESTERN SPOTTED CUCUM3ER BEETLE ( Diabrotica soror Lee.) 
Oregon. D. C. Mote (April 10): A spotted cucumber beetle was laying- eggs at 
the base of a broad-leaf plantain plant near Corvallis on April 3. (B.G. 
Thompson. ) 
PLEA BEETLES (Kalticinae) 
Alabama. J. M. Robinson (April 21): Plea beetles are very abundant on toma- 
to in Tuskegee. 
Utah. G. F. Knowlton (April S): Hop flea beetles ( Fsylliodes mmctulata 
Melsh. ) are abundant upon Russian thistle and other reed hosts in many parts 
of Utah, Boxelder, Salt Lake, and Tooele Counties. 
NORTHERN MOLE CRICKET ( GryllotaPpa hexadactyla Perty) 
Alabama. J. M. Robinson (Anril 21): Mole crickets are moderately abundant in 
g"ar,dens in Camden. 
Mississippi. C. Lyle and assistants (April): Mole crickets are very abun- 
dant at Ocean Springs in gardens. (Abstract, J.A.H.) 
APHIPS (Aphiidae) 
Kansas. H. R. Bryson (April 23): Plant lice have been reported causing injury 
to radishes at Sedan and at Manhattan. 
GREENHOUSE CENTIPEDE ( Scutigerella immaculata Newt). ) 
California. A. E. Michelbacher (April 20): In the Sacramento River Telta dis- 
trict the garden centipede has done some damage to the stand of sugar beet 
in several places. Several fields were replanted and even then a perfect 
stand was not obtained because of the attack of this pest. 
