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Idah* 
Alabama 
W, E, Kinds (February 25): At Baton Rouge the Colorado potato 
"beetles are "becoming injurious to early crops of Irish potatoes. 
C, E, Smith (March 23): General emergence of beetles 
( Leptinotarsa 10-lineata Say), from hibernation seems to he 
almost completed, if not entirely. Mating very common and 
considerable number of egg clusters noted in Louisiana and 
a few larvae which ranged from very small to about one-half 
grown. 
Claude Wakeland (March IS): The Colorado potato beetle was 
discovered at Parma last season and steps were taken by the 
Experiment Station to eradicate it. How successful this wsrk 
was will not be known until we have opportunity to check up 
on it during the growing season. The chance of eradication 
is good, since it was found to be established in only one small 
field and scouting did not show it tc be present in other 
fields in the same community, 
SWEET POTATO 
SWEET -POTATO WEEVIL ( Cylas formicarius Fab,) 
Monthly Letter Bureau of Entomology No. 130 (Feb.1925) : E, G, 
Caldwell has been appointed an inspector of the Alabama State 
Board of Horticulture to keep in touch with the sweet-potato 
weevil situation in the neighborhood of Foley, Baldwin Co., 
where severe infested sweet potatoes were recently found in a 
storage house. 
TOMATO 
Louisiana 
Nebraska 
Missouri 
WIREWORMS ( Melanotus sp. ) 
C, E, Smith (March 19): The larvae of this species were found 
making large ragged holes in the underground portion of the 
stem of young tomato plants at Baton Rouge. The ,?round on 
which this wireworn was collected was sod previous tc 192*+, when 
it was brought back into cultivation. A considerable number of 
tomato plants had been completely killed. 
STRAWBERRY 
PEACH- TWIG BORER (Anarsia lineatella Zell, ) 
M. H, Swenk (October to December 192 % 4): A bed of strawberry 
plants showing severe injury by the strawberry crown miner 
was examined in Lancaster County during the third week in 
October. 
STRAWBERRY -CROWN BORER ( Tyloderma fragarlae Riley) 
L. Haseman (March IS): This pest has about ruined some 
