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ASPARAGUS 
ASPARAGUS BEETLE ( Criocer is asnnragi L. ) 
Massachusetts 
Delaware 
New York 
Pennsylvania 
Virginia 
Maryland 
Illinois 
Iowa 
California. 
A. I. Bourne (May 24): Asparagus beetles appeared for the 
first time at .Amherst on May 14, and on the 16th were observed 
for the first tine by Professor Whit comb at 'Jaltham. The first 
asnaragus beetles to appear were C. asnaragi . the spotted spe- 
cies C. duodecimo uric tata L. appearing some days later. 
L. A. Stearns (May 33): Asnaragus beetles were unusually 
abundant and destructive throughout the State. 
N. Y. State Coll. Agr. (May 23): Asnaragus beetles caused 
considerable damage during the hot weather by eating the 
tender tips in Chautauqua County. Little egg-laying has 
taken nlace. 
C. A. Thomas (May 20): The common asnaragus beetle has been 
abundant and destructive in some asnaragus fields in south- 
eastern Pennsylvania during the month. They have caused con- 
siderable damage by distorting a large nronortion of aspara- 
gus stalks. Only occasionally were specimens of the 12-s-ootted 
asnaragus beetle noticed* : 
L. W. Brannon (April 27): The first adult of the season was 
found feeding in the field on April 27. 
E. N. Cory (May 13): Reported attacking asnaragus in Balti- 
more and Anne Arundel Counties. 
J. H. Bigger (May): First appearance this year at Jackson- 
ville, April 30. 
C. C. Comnton (May 20): The common asparagus beetle is 
very abundant at Des Plaines and 31ue Island. More than 50 
ner cent of the tips were badly damaged in several fields. 
H. E. Jaques (May 27): The common asnaragus beetle which 
apparently made its first anpearance here two years ago is 
now becoming quite abundant and may be found in numbers where- 
ever asnaragas is to be seen. 
A. E. Michelbacher (May 19): Generally snread throughout 
the Sacramento River Delta. At the season progresses it will 
probably become injurious in nlaces. 
CUCUMBERS 
STRIPED CUCUMBER BEETLE ( Diabrotica vittata Fab. ) 
Virginia H. G. Walker (May 25): The strined and shotted cucumber 
beetles are much more abundant now than at this time last 
year, the strined cucumber beetle being esnecially abundant. 
