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PICKL3 WOUli ( Piaphar.ia nl tidal is Stoll) 
Connecticut W. P. Britton (October 24): ' This is the first injury by 
this insect that I have ever.-, seen or had reported in 
Connecticut. Until now we did not have an. adult in our 
collection. It is attacking cucumber and summer squash at 
Branford, Handen, and Greenwich. 
Maryland S. F. Cory (October 22): Diaphania nitidalis was reported 
on squash in Baltimore County. 
South Carolina W. J. Reid, Jr. (October 2-3): The heavy infestation of 
fall squash plantings at Charleston ^y the pickle worn and 
the melon worn (p.- byalinata L. ), reported in September, 
has continued throughout October. Injury to the fruit has 
been quite general. Up squash whatever has been harvested 
in this section from iHnpoisoned plantings. In most instances 
plants in unpoisoned. -fields are now. entirely dead as a result 
of the insect attack. A second fall generation of both species 
appeared in the middle of October. Adults of both species 
were abundant in the field throughout October. 
Florida. J. R. Watson (October 23): The pickle worn is unusually 
destructive to fall-grown cucumbers in the north-central 
part of the State. Some fields have been utterly destroyed 
in a. week's time. The caterpillars, nine the entire stem of 
the plant. Squashes have not been so severely injured. 
F. S. Chanberlin (October 12): The pickle worn is very 
destructive to cucurbits in Blount stoivn at this tine. 
W. J. Reid, Jr. (October 21): Pall cucu..nBoE.' plantings in 
the vicinity of Wauchula, Hardee County, are being severely 
damaged b^ r the pickle worm and the melon worm, P. hyalinata L. 
The worms are feeding on buds, leaves, vine stems, and fruit 
of all sizes. All plantings are apparently infested to some 
extent, as much as 75 per cent of the fruit being rendered 
unfit for use. Complete abandonment of several fields ~b: r the 
growers has occurred. Feeding of the worms on the vine stems 
is quite general. Growers of the county estimate that their 
1931 fall cucumber crop of approximately 600 acres will be 
cut 50 per cent. The pests are much more dps tractive than 
usual this fall. 
SQUASH 
SQUASH BUG ( Anasa tristis PeG. ) 
Ohio J. S. Houser (October 5); We have bad the most destructive 
outbreak on record in Ohio this summer from the squash bug. 
