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COMMON RED SPIDER ( Tetranych us telarius L. ) 
Virginia. H. G-. Walker (March 23): The red snider continued to be rather 
"abundant in a great many strawberry fields in the Norfolk area and on 
the. Eastern Shore of Virginia. 
BEET 
BEET LEAFHOPPER ( Eutettix tenellus Bak. ) 
Colorado and Utah. W. A. Shands and 0. A. Hills (Februrry): Observations 
near the end of February indicated that no germination of snring host 
plants had occurred in the general breeding area but that it could be 
expected within a few days; also that little mortality of S. tenellus 
occurred during the past winter in the Grand Valley of Colorado. It 
is reasonable to expect that similar survivals obtained over the breed- 
ing area of southeastern Utah. 
Utah. G-. F. Knowlton (March 14): Beet leafhoppers are more than usually 
abundant in the breeding areas of Box Elder County, south of Lampo 
and west of Corinne. 
General. E. W. Davis (Februarv): Filaree was found in southwestern Utah 
at Leeds and at Santa Clara. A few scattered plants on the uplands 
were of recent germination and no leafhoppers were found on them. 
At the station at Leeds 7 leafhoppers were found in 14 square feet; 
at Saint George, Q ^er 1& square feet; and at Santa Clara, 1 was found. 
In a section northwest of the Indian reservation, where a large number 
were found last fall on sheeuweed, only one was found. On beets in the 
Saint George area 10 leafhoppers per 20 square feet were found. In the 
southern Nevada section the creosote bush was quite dry and in many 
Places exceedinglv brown. In the Dry Lake section, which normally 
germinates some f ila,ree , no annuals were present. South of Las Vegas 
the creorote bush was somewhat greener and some wild mustard was 
germinating around the base of the bushes. However, no leafhopners 
could be found in this area. On the road south of Las Vegas toward 
Searchlight it w.ps extremelv dry and no annuals had germinated. In 
the Arizona section of the "oerennia.1 breeding area, we found that the 
filaree had germinated from high on the hill slopes, down to the broad 
flats. Filaree was also found between Littlef ield, Ariz., and Mesauite, 
Nev. , in small areas. Twenty-five miles southwest of Spint George, 
Utah, on the hillside, two lO-square-^eet samples did not show any leaf- 
homers. Farther down on the flat none were found. The filaree in 
this area was more or less of recent germination; that is, it germinated 
late last fall. Leafhoppers were found only in those patches that ger- 
minated from the November rainfall. In most of these nlaces the areas 
that sunnorted leafhoppers were covered in making these checks. In 
dissections of the females it w~s found that practically three-fourths 
had matured eggs. At Logandale, Nev., no leafhoppers were found on 
beets. On Russian-thistle 1 inch high, ore leafho^per in 10 square feet 
was found, but very little Russian-thistle was germinated in this area. 
