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.has been abnormally warm and dry. (May 12): The principal 
truck crops grown during this season in the Charleston area 
— cabbage, cucumbers, -ootatoes and beans — are now being seri- 
ously damaged by the heaviest infestation that local growers 
remember of ever witnessing, certainly the worst in the sec- 
tion during the past six years. At nresent young cucumbers 
appear to be suffering most from the attack. The infestation 
is quite general over the entire section. As many as 35 thrips 
have been counted in the field of a microscope, five-eighths 
inches on the under side of a cucumber leaf. An average of 
14 thri-os was found on each of 100 similar sized areas on 100 
cucumber leaves. Since May 1 the insects have spread to ad- 
jacent cucumber, 'bean, ootato, and onion plantings. The fol- 
lowing native plants in the vicinity of truck nlantings were 
found to be infested: Goldenrod, milkweed, smartweed, pig- 
weed, and Johnson grass. (May 13): Thri-os were found to be 
moderately abundant on small plantings of cucumbers and melons 
in the central portion of the" State. (May 14): They were 
proving quite destructive to onions in the northern or Pied- 
mont area of the State. The infestation continued to be 
severe until May 20. During the 24-hour period from 8 a. m. , 
May 20, to 8a. m. , May 21, a rainfall of 4.34 inches fell 
at Charleston. The infestation on 100 leaves after the rain 
was found to be 70.9 per cent less than the infestation count 
made during a neriod of 3 days before the rain. 
W. A. Thomas (May 10): Thrips are causing severe injury to 
cabbage, cucumber, bean, Irish notato, and gladiolus in the 
vicinity of Charleston. 
A CA T *EL CRICKET ( Daihinia brevroes Hald. ) 
C. F. Stiles (May 23): A cricket is doing serious damage 
to garden and truck cro^s at Hollis^. (Set. A.N.Caudell) 
COMMON RED SPIDER ( Tetranychus telarius L.) 
H. B> Walker (May 26): The red snider is very abundant and 
has caused considerable damage to strawberries in the Norfolk 
district and on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. 
0. I. Snanp (May 2): The drought has been favorable for 
the red snider and they are unusually abundant in Fort Valley. 
A field of English garden neas has been ruined. ^ (May 14): 
Red spiders have caused serious damage to beans in gardens 
at Fort Valley. 
THE GREENHOUSE CENTIPEDE ( Scutigerella immaculata Newp.) 
A. E. Michelbacher (May 19): This contincde continues to 
damage asparagus and is very destructive in greenhouses around 
East Oakland. 
