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MEXICAN BEAN BEETLE 
Generally speaking, the Mexican "bean "beetle ( E-pilachna corr:r's ;.u.ls.) 
caused severe losses to bean growers in the Eastern and Southeaster- States 
during 1933. Survival over winter was high, and damage would have "been more 
severe but for a prolonged drought in several States. Beans were severely 
injured, and in many cases destroyed, in New Jersey and Delaware. Injury 
was severe in parts of Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia (western counties and 
eastern shore), North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, north- 
eastern Mississippi, Kentucky, and the Ohio River Valley in Ohio and Indiana. 
In some sections of the Ohio River Valley and also in eastern Tennessee. 
damage was lighter than usual. It will be recalled that this insect was first 
recorded in eastern Illinois last year. Infestation in that district was much 
lighter this year. The beetle was recorded, however, in seven additional 
counties in the southern part of the State, from Richland and Jefferson Counties 
to Massac and Union Counties. This year it occasioned considerable damage in 
southern Indiana. During July larvae were collected in the St. Paul -Minneapolis 
district of Minnesota, which is far northwest of its known distribution. This 
is believed to have been a commercial jump. This year it was found at 
Monticello, Ela. , and in southern Mississippi. Although the insect was ap- 
parently introduced into no rthrrc antral Alabama in about 1919, this is the 
first year that there has been any appreciable spread southward. 
COLORADO POTATO BEETLE 
Early in the season the Colorado potato beetle ( Leptinotarsa decern! ineata 
Say]! was collected in L ake and Pasco Countie s, Fla. , which is south of the 
previous records in this State. It was unusually abundant in the northern 
and eastern parts of Wisconsin and across Minnesota into North Dakota during 
July. Conditions over most of the country were about normal. In Utah 
beetles were found in three localities along the Weber and Davis County line. 
In the Yakima Valley of Washington they were much more troublesome than usual. 
VEGETABLE WEEVIL 
Throughout the winter of 1932-33 the vegetable weevil ( Listroderes 
obliquus Gyll.) occasioned considerable damage to turnip and mustard; late 
in the winter it was recorded as attacking cabbage, spinach, and carrots over 
the southern two thirds of Mississippi and throughout Louisiana. About- the 
middle of March this insect was found at Clemson College, S. C . This is the 
first record in that State and the northeasternmost record for the distribution 
of the species. 
PICKLE WORM 
The pickle worm ( Diaphania ni tidal i s St oil) was unusually abundant in 
Alabama and Florida; many fields of cucumber, particularly those planted late, 
were completely wiped out in Florida, and 50 percent of the crop in Baldwin 
County, Ala., was rejected at the packing house. There was also considerable 
damage to summer squash. As the season advanced reports of damage were 
received from Mississippi, Kentucky, and Missouri. This year the insect did 
not persist in the northern part of its known range, where it had been trouble- 
some during the two previous years. 
