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CARROT ' • '. 
CARROT RUST FLY ( Psila rosae F. ) 
Washington. R. L. Webster (March 20) : P. rosae , referred to in the last num- 
ber of the Pe.st Survey Bulletin, is represented in A. L. Melander's priv- 
ate collection by two specimens - one taken on May 26, 1908, at Nooksack, 
a few miles from the Canadian border in Whatcom County; the other on 
May 17, 1910, at Olga, on one of the islands of Puget Sound. 
TURNIP 
TURNIP APHID (Rhop al s iphum pseudobrassicae Davis) 
Louisiana. P. K. Harrison (March 2U) : The population of the turnip aphid is 
increasing on turnip and mustard in the vicinity of Baton 'Rouge. Para- 
sites of this insect are also becoming more numerous. 
LETTUCE 
POTATO APHID ( illinoia solanifolii Ashm. ) 
Georgia. T. L. Bissell (March 19): Aphids abundant on lettuce on one garden, 
at Griffin, in central Georgia. 
STRAWBERRY ■ • 
STRAWBERRY WEEVIL (Anthonomus si gnatus Say) 
North Carolina. W. A. Thomas and P. A. Wright (February 9) : Owing to the 
unseasonably warm weather of January which caused huckleberries to bloom 
heavily early in February at Chadbourn, some weevils emerged from hiber- 
nation at that time. The cold weather in February caused the weevils to 
cease emerging and up to March 12 no further emergence had been observed. 
STRAWBERRY ROOT APHID (Aphis forbe si Weed) 
Virginia. H. G. Walker (March 2U): Strawberry root louse eggs were hatching 
at Norfolk on January 22, about 2 months earlier than eggs hatched last 
year. The eggs and young aphids were very scarce in every field examined 
and very little injury is expected. 
SWSETPOTATO 
SWEETPOTATO WEEVIL ( Cylas formicarius F. ) 
Mississippi. C. Lyle (March 2H): During the past few weeks several new in- 
festations of the sweetpotato weevil have been found in southern Miss- 
issippi. A considerable number of infested properties have been found 
in Pike and Jefferson Davis Counties with smaller infestations in Amite, 
Lawrence, and Jones Counties. The ne\: areas are being placed under 
quarantine. 
