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STRA.7BERRY LE\F ROLLER ( Ancylis co tip tana Fro el.) 
Indiana J. j # Davis (May 26): Reported abundant at Elkhart, May 24. 
Michigan R. Hutson (Kay 9): Plentiful on strawberries in Berrien 
County. 
Missouri L. Hasemo.n (May 21): Serious in southwestern Missouri. 
Larvae n earing maturity May 15. 
STRAWBERRY CRO'-'/N MOTH ( Aegeria rutilans Ky. 3dw.} 
Washington R. l. Webster (April 27) : A strawberry field on the college 
ground at Pullman has been ruined by this borer. 
FLOWER THRIPS ( Frankliniella tritje i Fitch) 
Louisiana C. 0. Hopkins and N. Allen (May 5): Present in all fields 
visited in the strawberry growing district of Tangipahoa Par- 
ish and seriously injuring the strawberry flowers. From 20 
to 75 -per cent of the blooms were being destroyed by this 
pest. Mr. 0. G. Price, County Agent, on May 5 wrote: "This 
thrips is causing about 20 per cent reduction of berries in 
fields in St. Tammany Parish." This thrips has been unusually 
abundant on various flowers in the vicinity of Baton Rouge 
during the present season. 
BEETS 
BEET LEAFHOPPER ( Eutettix tenellus Bak. ) 
Utah G-. F. Knowlton (May 18): Beet leafhoppers ore present in 
many parts of northern Utah. 
California A. E. Michelbacher (May 19): In the area around Clarksburg 
some curly top of sugar beets has been noted. The number of 
infested beets in this area at the -present time is less than 
1 per cent. To date I have not observed any leaf hoppers, 
although diseased beets would indicate that they have been 
in the area a month or more. 
BEET V/SB'J0R M ( Loxoste ge sti cticalis L. ) 
North Dakota J. A. Munro (May 23): Adults of the sugar beet webw rm 
have been abundant of late in the vicinity of Fargo. County 
agents and farmers of Ward, Williams, Divide, Hettinger, 
and McKenzie Counties report that the overwintering larvae 
have been observed unusually abundant in recently plowed 
fields. 
