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The hoxelder "bug is very unusually prevalent in Virginia, Maryland, 
and Delaware. This insect is also reported as very prevalent in the 
3a st Central States, r .7est Central States, Utah, and Washington. 
Damage to azaleas and rhododendrons "by white grubs is becoming in- 
creasingly prevalent in southern Alabama where these plants are used 
very extensively as ornamentals. 
The 3uropean thrip's Taer.iothrips at rat us mo nt anus Priesner. is 
recorded for the first time in the United States. It was found this sum 
mer on gladiolus at Longmeadow, Mass;. \ "•-»;.. 
