Insect Pests of Interest to Cotton Growers 203 



feed upon the cotton plant in Arizona. Their numbers have been 

 insignificant so far as observed, or injurious attacks have been con- 

 fined to very small tracts. Such pests include certain cutworms and 

 other moth caterpillars, a white ant or termite, several sucking plant 

 bugs related to those herein mentioned, and two beetles, Myochroiis 

 longulus Lee. and Blapstiniis pimalis Casey, which attack cotton 

 seedlings sometimes necessitating- replanting. The cotton fields 

 should be closely watched by the grower from the time the seed 

 sprouts, and specimens of any unrecognized pests should be sent at 

 once to an entomologist for examination. 



COTTON SEED AND SEED COTTON QUARANTINE 



For the protection of the Arizona cotton growing industry 

 against pests likely to be transported with cotton seed and seed 

 cotton the Arizona Commission of Agriculture and Horticulture 

 has placed in eflfect the following Quarantine Order and Inspection 

 and Quarantine Regulation : 



QUARANTINE ORDER NO. 15 



Seed Cotton and Cotton Seed 



In order to prevent the introduction and dissemination of the 

 cotton boll weevil {Anthonomus grandis) and the pink bollworm 

 (Pectinophora gossypiella) into and within the State of Arizona, it 

 is hereby ordered : 



(a) That the introduction of cotton seed and seed cotton into 

 the State of Arizona from any other state or territory of the United 

 States or from any foreign country, except as herein provided, is 

 hereafter prohibited. 



(b) That the transportation of cotton seed and seed cotton from 

 any county in the State of Arizona into any other county in the 

 State of Arizona is hereafter prohibited except under special au- 

 thorization from the State Entomologist. 



(c) That paragraph (a) of this quarantine order shall not apply 

 to seed cotton or cotton seed grown in that part of the State of Cali- 

 fornia adjoining the Colorado River and included in the Yuma 

 Reclamation Project, and paragraphs (a) and (b) shall not apply 

 to cotton seed for experimental purposes shipped by the U. S. De- 

 partment of Agriculture or the Arizona Agricultural Experiment 

 Station under special authorization from the State Entomologist 



(d) That all persons, firms or corporations in the State of Ari- 

 zona are prohibited from having possession of, transporting, selling 

 or giving away any seed cotton or cotton seed introduced into the 

 state or transported within the state in violation of this order. 



(e) That Quarantine Orders Nos. 5 and 9 are hereby rescinded. 

 Adopted November 16, 1917, 



