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IRUCI CRO-P INSECTS 
POTATO 
SEED-CORN MAGGOT ( Hylc:..yia cilicrura R ond.) 
I.lassa- 
chusetts. H, T. Fernald (Kay 10) " This insect was observed in the region 
extending fron South Deerfield to Hatfield in the Connecticut 
River Valley. It is the first case I have seen in the State, 
some fields suffering as high as 25 per cent damage. Where 
cotton seed meal -was used as a fertilizer the injury seer:.ed 
greatest and maggots taken in the field and put into the sane 
material £Sd on it. The growers noticed this and asked if the 
maggots could possibly have come in the Deal, The insect was 
bred fron the maggot and identified as an adult, verifying the 
larval ( tentative) identification. Just as the insect had been 
identified the special report on this pest was received. The 
maggots seemed worse on the lov/er spots in the fields out v;ere 
not wholly absent on the higher ground. " 
New 
Jersey. 2, J. Headlee (April ZJ) " The seed-corn maggot has appeared this 
spring in considerable numbers over the southern third of the 
State and has done dam re to pea and' bean seed^ to lettuce 
plants y and in some cases to potato seed. " 
D. E. Pink ( May 11) "This insect is 100 per cent rcore abundant 
than last year over the entire southern part of the State. By 
actual count 10 per cent of the 'string bean and liira bean 
plants were found to be injured. In the vicinity of TCest 
Palmyra fish scrap was used in the bottom of sweet corn hills 
and this field was nearly ruined. Another field planted a day 
later had no fish scrap in the bottom of the hills but the 
fish scrap was applied on top nfter the corn was up. This 
latter field was not injured. " 
Indiana. J. J. Davis ( Kay iy) " Reports of injury to corn and beans 
in central and south central Indiana have been received. " 
Illinois. S. C„ Chandler ( Kay iy) "This insect was bred from dying strawberry 
plants. Twenty-five per cent of the plants in a field at Richview 
were found to be in this condition. It was impossible to tell 
whether or not the maggots attacked healthy plants. " 
COLORADO POTATO BEETLE ( leptinotarsa deceralinoata Say) 
New York. C. R. Inglce ( Hay 13) " Beetles attached plants soon after the 
latter showed through the ground in Suffolk County. " 
H. C. Huckett ( Hay 14) " Eggs now becoming noticeable in sot© 
fields in Nassau C ounty. " 
