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SUGARCANE BEETLE (Euetheola rugiceps Lee.) 
Louisiana. B. A. Osterberger (April 23): Ligyrus is doing considerable 
damage to the sugarcane in St. Mary Parish; Many "dead heart" stalks 
are found attacked. Several of the larger sugar planters are using 
trap lights in an effort to trap the "beetle and some are employing 
several men who dig for them around injured canes, paying so much per 
"beetle. 
FRUIT INSECTS 
TARITISHED PLANT BUG ( Lygus pratensis L.) 
Virginia. W. J. Schoene (April 23): Tarnished 
plant "bugs were found very numerous in peach orchards in the Crozet 
section, sometimes a dozen or more on a tree. 
Washington. E. J. Newcomer (April 21): At Yakima very little injury to 
fruit buds by tarnished plant bug has been reported, although bugs are 
present in the orchards. Up to April 10 the weather was cold and 
windy, which prevented activity. Since that time it has been unseason- 
ably warm, and the buds have opened so rapidly that injury has been 
confined to individual buds rather than to clusters. 
APPLE 
APPLE APHIDS (Aphiidae) 
Connecticut. P. Gar man (April 23): Apple aphids, Anuraphis roseus Baker, 
and Aphis pomi DeG. , found in the field in New Haven County on April 
15. ' 
New York. IT. Y. State Coll. Agr. News Letter (April): In the Hudson River 
Valley the apple grain aphid ( Rhopalos iphum prunifoliae Fitch) 
started hatching March 25, the apple aphid the last 3 days in March, 
and the rosy apple aphid "between April 1 and 6. Infestation ''oy the 
grain and. rosy aphids may be somewhat heavier than it has been for 
2 or 3 years. In the Lake district the grain and rosy aphids 
commenced to hatch about the middle of April. 
New Jersey. M. Kostal (April 9): The rosy apple aphid and the green apple 
aphid were exceptionally abundant on expanding apple buds at Morganville 
on April 5» The infestation indicates that it will be the heaviest 
for the past 5 years. 
Pennsylvania. H. E. Hodgkiss (April 23): Eggs of the rosy apple aphid began 
hatching in Adams, Berks, Bucks, Philadelphia, York, Lancaster, Lebanon, 
Juniata, Franklin, Dauphin, and Cumberland Counties on April 1. In 
Chester and Delaware Cottnties they were hatched on March 2p and 26. In 
the east-central counties this species appeared on April lh to 17 . In 
the northeastern area eggs had hatched between March 31 a nd April 15' 
The green apple aphid and the grain aphid were present on partly 
