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ported from Austria-Hungary was infested when it reached America, 
there would seem to have been ample opportunity for the adults to 
escape because much of the material remained in storage and was not 
manufactured until some time after the normal dates of spring emer¬ 
gence under our climatic conditions. 
The fact that this insect is not now known to be established in any 
of the other numerous points in America where Austro-Hungarian 
broom corn was shipped may be due to several causes, one of which 
is an incomplete survey of the suspected regions. Thus, the data 
obtained upon this phase of the European corn borer situation to 
date appear to indicate rather forcibly that broom corn was the 
vehicle in which the European corn borer reached America. 
BEAN LADYBIRD 
By W. E. Hinds, Entomologist Alabama Experiment Station 
For many years the bean ladybird, Epilachna corrupta Muls., has 
been known to occur in Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and to a very 
limited extent in some adjacent states, where serious damage has 
been done to all varieties of table beans. The injury to the crop has 
been frequently very severe, but the spread of the pest has seemed to 
be slow and but little damage was done in the Plains region. Under 
the climatic conditions in that territory, two generations occurred and 
control measures consisted principally in jarring the insect from the 
plant to the hot, dry ground. Insecticidal measures gave little relief 
and appeared to act mainly as a repellent rather than insecticide. 
No occurrence of this insect East of the Mississippi River was known 
to us until specimens of the pest were received at the Alabama 
Experiment Station in July, 1920, from Jefferson and Bibb Counties, 
Alabama. Since that time a number of reports indicate its occurrence 
through a considerable area and scouting work conducted about the 
20th of August revealed the fact that the pest has been present in the 
vicinity of Blocton, Ala., in Bibb County, where it was first noticed in 
July, 1918. The first appearance of the pest in Jefferson County 
seems to have been within the city limits of Birmingham in July, 1919. 
During that season many truckers lost their late crop of beans but made 
no report of the occurrence of an insect pest to the Experiment Station 
or to any person realizing the danger of this insect becoming established. 
At the present time the pest occurs throughout Jefferson County 
and extends into adjacent counties, particularly southwestward to 
Bibb County. The second generation is now becoming adult during 
the latter part of August and the insect is likely to continue its spread 
