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A report from Garden County on August 11 stated that they were attacking 
tomatoes. in that locality. 
Kansas. H. R. Bryson (August 2U): Field crickets continue to annoy occupants 
of houses in both the city and the country. In some instances they ha^e 
caused considerable damage to household furnishings. Reports have come in 
from Jewell, Riley, Lincoln, Saline, and Cloud Counties, and from the towns 
of Mullinville, Dodge City, Lindsborg, Nickerson, and Peabody. 
ANTS (Formicidae) 
Nebraska. M. H, Swenk (August 20): Ants were reported to be infesting flower 
beds in Douglas County on July 26, and on July 27 a Grant County corre- 
spondent stated that they were proving troublesome in lawns and in trees 
in that locality. Mor.omorium pharaonis L. was complained of as bothering 
in a house and cave in Madison County ^>n August 17» 
Mississippi. C. Lyle (August ?H) : Complaints of Argentine ants ( iridomyrmex 
hum ills Mayr) have been received from Jackson, Durant , West, and Kosciusko. 
DARK MEALWORM ( Tonebrio obscurus F. ) 
Kansas. R. T. C- tton (July): An unusual case of injury was recently investi- 
gated. The worms, breeding in large numbers in waste meal that had fallen 
to the ground under a warehouse, were migrating up the walls of the ware- 
hous3 through cracks in the floor aid collecting in the cars of burlap bags 
of feed. They were not damaging the feed, but the presence of 50 or 60 
worms in each ear of the bags rendered them unattractive to -orospective 
purchasers and spoiled the sale of a considerable quantity of feed. 
PFA WEEVIL ( Bruchus pi so rum L. ) 
Indiana. J. J. Davis (August 23): A heavy infestation reported from Brazil, 
on August 6. ^e specimens submitted were in the mature larval and pupal 
stages. 
BEAN WEEVIL ( Acr-ntho seel ides obtc-ctus Say) 
Utah. G. F. Knowlton (August J>) : Bean weevils have ruined beans in r-ne home 
at Logan, and became serious household nuisances as soon as the beans were 
distributed, 
CIGARETTE BEETLE ( Lasioderma sorricorne F. ) 
Virginia. E. M. Livingstone (August 18): Warehouses in Richnord in which no 
control measures are employed appear to have the heaviest infestation of 
the cigarette beetle since 1933* Old. tobaccos brought in from eastern 
North Carolina are heavily infested. 
Nebraska. M. H. Swenk (August 20): A Cumin,; County correspondent reported that 
the cigarette beetle was infesting a mohair davenport in that county on 
August 16, .and a Lancaster County correspondent made a similar report on 
August 20. 
