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GBEES SOLDIER BUG (%zara h.lu-is Fitch) 
O.I.Snapp (July 18). "This ^roidiar bug is rore abundant about Fort 
Valley than it has been for a number of years. Lima beans in many 
gardens have been almost totally destroyed by 'the 'stings' in the 
developing pods," 
. . TTHEAT VXBSnQBBf ( A?riot?3 irancu s Say) 
C.E.Crosby {-June 20). "Seven acres of beans in Schuyler County very 
badly infested by this wireworm. This field was planted to wheat and 
plowed under this spring. Last year it was in beans following a 
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. . WESTERN 12-SP0TTED CUOTMBEH BEETLE ( Piabrotica 3 or or Lee.) 
A. L.Love tt (July 18). *S3rious injury dsreurs to many crops. Beans, 
potatoes, and the silk of sweet corn have proven favorite foods. 
Damage exceptionally serious in Lane County," 
. . STHIPED CUCUMBEF BEETLE ( Piabrotica vitta tr. Fab.) 
■ssachusetts H.T.Fernald (July 19). "The overwintering adults of the striped 
cucumber beetle have been disappearing from fields since about the 
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M.C, Hammond (June 29). "The larvae of the striped cucumber beetle 
are. causing more damage than was observed, last year in Summit County c ? 
L„M,Peairs (July o). "This insect is probably less numerous than at 
this time last year in this State." 
F.D c Butcher (July 20). On June 2g, I found the striped cucumber 
beetle destroying the. first planting of pompkin and squash at Atlantic." 
sconsin S.B.Fraeker (June 25). "More complaint* than usual from southern 
two T thirds of the State," 
M.H.Swenk (July 15). 'Usual number 6f complaints of injury by this 
pest received during the past month." 
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. . SQUASH BUG ( Anas a tristis DeG.) 
sachusetts H.T.Fsrnald (July 19). "The squash bug is in normal abundance. Eggs 
are hatching and a few nymphs devaloped to the third ins tar may now 
be found." 
Fred D. Butcher (July 20) , "The squash.- bug was ovipositing at this 
time." 
