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ONION THRIPS (T hrips tabaci L.) 
sekly News Letter, N. Y. State College of Agr. , August 5: 
Doing considerable damage to onions in Orange County. 
•C. S.Compton (August 7) : More destructive to onions than 
at any time since 1921. Severely injured about an acre of 
cabbage adjoining onion fields where the onions had been har- 
vested. 
PEPPER 
BANDED CUCUMBER BEETLE ( Diabrotica balteata Lee.) 
California A. C. Davis (August 16): Several taken in a few minutes at 
Vista, but no estimate was made of actual numbers present 
per plant. This species seems to be moving northward in 
California. 
"'ontana 
Idaho 
Nevada 
Utah 
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BEET S ' 
■••■ BEET LEAFHOPPER ( Eatettix tenellus Bak.) 
™. B. Mabee (August 20): The beet leafhopper is scarce. 
C. '.Takeland (August 20): Little injury to beets excepting 
in districts near the natural breeding grounds. 
C. G. Schweis (August 20): No commercial plantings of 
sugrr beets this year. 
G. P. Knowlton (August 11): Most parts of northern U1 
are suffering very little from the beet leafhopper and curly 
top. The most serere curly-top damage in this section is at 
Thatcher, Hooper, Fenrose, and Bothwell, and occasional fields 
in other districts. Leaf hoppers are very abundant in some 
desert breeding areas on deserted dry farms. 
H. J. Pack (July 27): Scarce to moderately abundant in 
beet sections. 
MARGINED BLISTER BEETLE ( Epic rata cinerer mar^inata Fab.) 
F. M. Wadley (August l): Beets in a garden at Brandywine 
are almost defoliated in spots. 
