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BEAM INSECTS 
ME3CIGAH EEAN BEETLE (Epilachna corrupoa) 
Alabama W.E.Hinds and N. F. Howard (March £2) In Birmingham section adults 
wore- 'active after March 1 and wggs were found by Marcg 21. The 
adults are emerging in considerable numbers from hibernating 
quarters , It is evident that at least 20 % of last years beetles 
have suoessfully passed the winter. In view of the fact that a 4 % 
sucessful hibernation of the Boll weevil represents a serious 
infestation f the probable second brood of the Bean beetle will 
be extensive and injurious. At the time of writing, early garden 
beans are coming through the soil at Birmingham and ample food 
Will be. afforded for the first brood of larvae, unless the hiber- 
nated beetles destroy the crop; if this becomes the condition a 
serious and widespread migration may be expected with the result 
that the infested area may reach well into Georgia and Tennessee, 
by the end cf the season. 
BEAN LEAF BEETLE (Ceratoma trifurcata) 
North C.S,Brirnley (March 2l) First adult of the season seen on sassafras 
Carolina blossoms at Raleigh. ■ - 
SfEET POTATO* INSECTS. , . . 
SWEET POTATO WEEVIL (Cylas fo.rmicarius) 
Florida A, C.Brown (April 15) The infested area in Baker County reduced 
about 75 /o through eradication work carried on .by the Bureau of 
Entomology and the State Plant Board or? Florifia. 
S.YMPHYLID IKRIAPGD.: 
Hiss. K.L.Cockerhaa. Sweet potatoes were damaged more than ordinarily 
by these myriapods over the entire sou •'.hern halfl of the State . 
This damage was often mistaken for weevil injury. Our attention 
was called to it on numerous occasions.. No iayriajpods '.vers ever 
found in the tubers only the damage where it had tunneled into 
them . 
