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STRAWBERRY CROWN BORER ( Tyl o derma i ragar ice Riley) 
Tennessee. G. li. Bentley (July 22): The strawberry crovm borer is moderately 
abundant in northeastern Tennessee. 
ROUGH STRAWBERRY ROOT WEEVIL ( Brachyrhinus rugosostriatus Gyll.) 
Utah. G. F. Knowlton (July 7): The rough strawberry weevil is damaging strawberry 
patches in many parts of northern Utah. (July 21): It is doing more damage in 
Utah County than last year. 
A NITIDULID ( Stelidota gemir.ata Say) 
Massachusetts. W. D. Whitcomb (July 28): This beetle was found damaging straw- 
berries in Walt ham, Newton, and Acton, and was reported but not definitely 
determined as injurious in several other localities in Middlesex County. It 
appeared that these beetles were directly responsible for injury to ripe straw- 
berries. In many cases brown rot fungus was also present where the fruits were 
injured, but it appeared that the beetles had eaten holes before the brown rot 
caused the fruit to decay. Injury was not confined to over-ripe berries but waa 
present on many berries which were colored on only, one side and would not reach 
their best maturity for picking for one or two days. Howard 17 was the variety 
injured in each authentic report. 
STRAWBERRY ROOT APHID ( Aphis forbesi Weed) 
Tennessee. G. M. Bentley (July 22): The strawberry root louse is very abundant 
in northeastern Tennessee. 
SUGAR BEETS 
BEET WEB WORM ( Lcxostege sticticallis L.) 
North Dakota. J. A. Munro (July 22): The sugar-beet webwerm was reported as 
prevalent and causing crop injury in Ward, IvicKenzie, Walsh, Grand Forks, Cass, 
and Foster Counties. 
Iowa. C.J. Drake (July 27): The sugar beet wecworm did considerable damage in 
onion fields in the vicinity of Crystal Lake, One field of 12 acres was 
practically destroyed. (Determined by ' . Carl Heinrich.) 
Wyoming. C. L. Corkins (July 2l): The sugar-beet wecworm is serious in localized 
areas throughout the sugar-beet sections of the State. 
Utah. G. F. Knowlton (July 3): Sugar-beet webworrag are causing severe damage to 
sugar beets in parts of Sevier County. Eleven spraying machines are in operation 
in the area immediately northeast of Richfield. (July 19): Moths are extreme- 
ly abundant in a few alfalfa fields, sugar-beet fields, and among weeds 
margining the fields at Syracuse and Westpoint. In most places the second- 
generation moths have just commenced, or have not yet commenced to emerge. 
New Mexico. J. R. Douglass (July 15): An outbreak on sugar beets has been reported 
from Las Vegas. 
