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plants, injury having begun even near the District of Columbia about the first of 
_ May. Reports of injury have also been received from Washington State and else- 
_where. The seed-corn maggot is the only species which has positively identified 
and this is the one which is probably causing the most trouble. "The first record 
of the occurrence of the striped cucumber beetle in Iowa was reported at Muscatine 
by Charles E. Smith, Scientific Assistant. 
The Colorado potato beetle is generally destructive in the South from 
Louisiana to Texas and in Tennessee and Missouri; it made its first appearance 
this year on May 18. 
a The harlequin cabbage bug is late this season having been reported injur- 
' ious in New Orleans, La., Memphis, Tenn. 
Owing to the warm days, May 19, 20 and 21, injuries have been reported of 
_ various insects including the potato fleebeetle, the striped cucumber beetle, and 
_ various other insects from nearby points about the District. 
The common cabbage worm will be mature around the District by about the 
beginning of June or a little later to produce a second generation which will at- 
tack garden-grown cabbage and related crops. The present generation is feeding on 
wild or volunteer turnip. 
The cabbage aphis made its appearance at about the same time as the cabbage 
worms, and has been found in several cases on the same individual plants. 
: A cricket-like grasshopper, Diestrammena marmorata, has been reported doing 
much damage to radish and other plants grown in greenhouses at Milwaukee, Wis, 
@g Several reports have been received of injury by the pavement ant in the 
_ District of Columbia; specimens have been identified. In one instance they were 
' injuring lima beans; in another they were described as eating everything in the 
_ garden except onions. 
iz Severe outbreaks of the melon aphis have been reported from Florida to 
‘Texas, Prof. F. B. Paddock, State Entomologist, College Station, Toxas, writes, 
) “The more we work upon the melon aphis the more we realize melon and truck 
) growers of this State have suffered more loss than we appreciate". He reports 
’ the same experience which many of us have had, that kerosene emulsion ig not 
) always successful because of the inability of growers to prepare it properly. It 
wis particularly difficult to prepare with alkali water. This Bureau is advising 
in ordinary cases at least 8 or 10 minutes pumping until a true emulsion similar 
_ to cod-liver oil is formed, 
: The bean aphis continues to be the cause of complaint in California where 
\ four employees of this branch of the Bureau are giving the matter attention in 
- cooperation with other experts. ‘The problem of how to treat these insects will 
) most likely be solved during the season. Nicotine sulphate is the best remedy yet 
tried. 

Sowbugs are doing considerable injury in Texas, and in other regions. 
_ Slugs and snails have also been reported injurious. 
The strawberry root weevil (Otiorhynchus ovatus) has been reported de- 
structive by Arthur J. King, Field Assistant, Vashon, Wash., and Frank R. Cole, 
Scientific Assistant, Hood Hiver, Oreg. 
. The raspberry leaf-miner, probably Metallus rubi, has been reported by 
Henry Kleuver, Secretary, Dover Grape Growers Association, Dover, Ohio, as being 
injurious. Nicotine sulphate was not successful. 
Severe outbreaks of the bean leaf-beetle have been reported from nearby 
points about the District of Columbia, in Maryland and Virginia, by Messrs. A. C. 
Baker, B. A. Reynolds, and W. H. White, erployees of the Bureau of Entomology. 
