TRUCK-CROP INSECTS 
SWEET POTATO 
STREET POTATO ^EVIL ( Cylas formicarius L.) 
Louisiana f* H* Jones (January ll)- "'Mr- W« E- Anderson, entomologist 
of the State board of agriculture, reports weevils as being 
very abundant in a storage warehouse at Stevens dale* later 
investigations by Mr* C- E* Smith, U- S» Bureau of Entomology, 
showed potatoes in this house to be of the 1921 crop* The 
weevils had, apparently, been introduced at Stevensdale 
through infested material brought hhere from elsewhere and 
had, apparently, been spread to various farms in that section 
through this material- 
CABBAGE AI T D KOHLRABI 
Louisiana 
HARLEQUIN CABBAGE BUG ( Mutuant ia histrionica Hahn) 
T- H« Jones (March 14)* Adults and a few eggs were observed 
at Baton Rouge today- No nymphs have so far been seen- 
STRAWBERRY 
FLEA-BEETLE : (Haltica liti^ata Fall) 
Louisiana T» H- Jones (February 14): Larvae of this beetle were noted 
at Puuchatcula on strawberry plants ron this date- Most 
of the larvae were full grown and had entered the soil- 
Adults were very abundant on strawberries at Independence 
on this same date* These reports were made by Mr- C* E* 
Smith- 
COTTON RED-SPIDER (T etranychus telarius L-) 
Louisiana T* H- Jones (March 17): Mr. C» E- Smith reports the red- 
spider as being present in injurious numbers quite generally 
in strawberry fields in Tangipahoa and Livingston Parishes 
from the middle of February up to the present -flame* 
California 
PEAS 
PEA APHID (I llinoia pisi -KaltO 
E* 0- Essig (March 12): Indications are for a various pea 
aphid year. Many fields of early market peas in the San 
Francisco Bay region are already seriously infested. 
R- E. Campbell (March 19): Through the kindness of Mr- R-S- 
^oglum, I am able to furnish you with the following localities 
in which purple vetch has been damaged by the peadaphid: 
Santa Paula and Filmore in Ventura County; San Fernando and 
Alhambra in Los Angeles County, and LaHabra in Orange County- 
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