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ana, Mississippi, Arkansas,... and Arizona, tut only local damage was caused in the 
eastern Seaboard States. . (U„ C, Loftin, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quaran- 
tine, U. S. D. A.) 
BOLLWORM. —Bollworm infestations were also very generally distributed and 
probably caused more damage than in any year since 1938. The first moth ‘’emerged 
from a hibernation cage at Waco, Tex., on April 25* Emergence was completed by 
the end of May, with 22-percent survival, Bollworm was reported more abundant 
than usual on corn throughout the United States and resulted in a. heavy migra- 
tion of moths to cotton when corn matured. During August severe damage to 
cotton wa.s reported from the greater part of Texas, Louisiana, and Oklahoma and 
on sea.-island cotton in Florida, Bollworm damage was apparently associated with 
aphid infestations and in some cases the bollworms destroyed much of the late 
crop that had. been protected from boll weevils, (U. C. Loftin, Bureau of Ento- 
mology and Plant Quarantine, U. S. D. A.) 
PERIODICAL CICADA.— Brood XV of the periodical cicada was set up on a few 
scattered records along the Atlantic seaboard, supposed to have been retarded 
colonies of Brood XIV. The principal colonies were in Dutchess and Saratoga 
Counties, N. Y, This year the only confirmed record wa.s Dutchess County, N. Y. 
the following observation being made by A. T. Williams: ’’The periodical cicada 
has been observed generally throughout the Red Hook, Rock City, and Tivoli area 
of Dutchess County, and its noise has been heard as far south os Monchest er 
Bridge, just east' of Poughkeepsie," 
A. M. Woodside reported a few individuals from St 0.1111 ton, Augusta County; 
Greenwood, Albemarle County; and Afton, Nelson County, Virginia. These are the 
first records of the brood in Virginia, They also must be retarded individuals 
of Brood XIV, as they occur in the area covered by this brood. 
L, Hasenan made the following report: "On May l6, 19^1, a single specimen 
of the periodical cicada was picked up on the street in Columbia, Mo. This is 
probably "merely a stray specimen, although a year ago specimens almost ready to 
emerge were dug up," The Insect Pest Survey is not able to place this record 
with any degree of accuracy. It nay be accelerated individuals of Brood XVI, 
which is a. doubtful brood, consisting of one colony each in Iowa, Nebraska, and 
Arkansas, (G. Myers, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, U. S. D. A.) 
SPRUCE BUDWORM. — Although there was no noticeable budworm feeding in jack 
pine stands' on the Chippewa National Forest, arca.s to the south and west were 
seriously defoliated. Feeding wa.s also heavy in jack pine stands on the 
Superior National Forest, in Minnesota, and on the Huron Na.tional Forest, in 
Michigan, White pines and red pines in the understory were almost completely 
stripped of their foliage. 
The spruce-fir form of the budworm caused noticeable defoliation of these 
species in stands in and ^adjacent to the Superior National Forest. (H. J, 
MacAloney, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, U. S. D, A.) 
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SPRUCE APHID, — For the first time in several years, heavy defoliation of 
Sitka spruce by Aphis ab i e t ina Walk, occurred along the Oregon and Washington^ 
coast (fairing 194l. Many intermediate and suppressed, trees were completely 
