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COLORADO POTATO BEETLE ( Leotinotarsa deaimliniata ) 
H.A.Gossard (April 9) Winter has been very mild and the season 
is two or three weeks ahead of normal. Potato beetles were 
scarce last year over most of the State . We think they will 
not be conspicuous this season. 
C.S.brimley (March 26) Abnormally warm since March 1. The first 
adult seem in flight today at Raleigh. 
T.H.Jones (March 14) Winter unusually mild. Spring three or 
four weeks earlier than the last' few. years . Eggs were noticed 
p i^n. outdoor cages on March 7 and in the field on March 14. In 
.1919 eggs were first noted on' March ;23. .in. the fields 
LEAF FOOTED PLANT BUG (Leoto^lo^sus r.hvllorus ) . 
T.H.Jones (March 30) Adults damaging potatoes at Hammond. 
They congregate ,especually. on the tips of the growing shoots 
and, through feeding on them, cause them to wilt and die. 
'GREEN 'STINK BUG (Nezara - vlrldula ).. 
T.H.Jones (March 19) This insect has been reported by County 
Agent in Point Coupee Parish as: injuring the crop of potatoes.'. 
The adults congregate especially on. the tips of growing shoots 
and through feeding on them cause them to wilt and die. A 
cluster of eggs were observed on above date. In 1917 eggs 
were first noted in the field on April 13 at Baton Rouge. 
CABBAGE, 
HARLEQUIN CABBAGE BUG ( Mur^antia histrion-' ca ) 
D. C. Office of Truck Insect Investigations, B.E. (April l) Observ- 
ations during the last v/eek in March indicate that a very 
high percentage of Harlequin cabbage bugs have sucessfully 
passed the winter in the vicinity, of Washington. This 
insect normally is. confined to the region south of Norfolk, 
Va. but during favorable years it has extended northward in 
^ ... ; destructive numbers into New Jersey , Ohio , and has even been 
•-.<■ . found as far north- as New York, and New England. 
