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COTTON INSECTS 
BOLL W3NVIL ( Anthonoreus Brandi s Boh.) 
South Carolina. F„ F. Bendy (March 5) ; In Florence County 42 sanples of trash 
examined to date averaged 1,243 weevils per acre, as compared with 1, 960 
weevils per acre in similar examinations riade during 194l. These early 
examinations indicate that boll weevils are about as numerous as at this 
tine last year. 
Florida. C. S. Rude (February 22): Reports made each week in February state- 
that boll weevils were observed to be active in the hibernation cages. 
Louisiana. R, C. Gaines (March 5) : date 20 samples of surface trash have 
been examined from two points in Madison Parish, in which live boll weevil 
were found at the rate of ~{ 2 & per acre, as compared with 2,229 per acre at 
the same points in 1941, Between March 10 and April 2, 1941, in examina- 
tion of 200 samples from 20 points in Madison Parish, boll weevils were 
found at the rate of 920 per acre. These preliminary investigations in- 
dicate that boll weevils are slightly less abundant in Madison Parish than 
they were a year ago. 
Texas. R, W. Harned (February 18): Fntomol ogists at the Brownsville laboratory 
report that boll weevils are more abundant, in the lower Rio Grande Valley 
of Texas and Mexico than during the last two winters. Many adult boll 
weevils have been, observed and. a few larvae have been found in squares and 
bolls. Because of the excessive .rainfall and flooding, it has been impos- 
sible to clean up some of the cottonfields as thoroughly as was done the 
two preceding years. This has made some cotton available in which the 
weevils have continued to breed throughout’ tlie winter. 
COTTON STAINFFiS ( DysAercus sp.) 
Florida, C. S. Rude (February 2l): Many observed feeding on unpicked cotton 
left, in fields around Mascotte Lake County, Most of the plants killed 
early in January by a frost. Stages ranging from newly hatched nymphs to 
adults observed. Numerous in one field in piles of stalks, where they 
were feeding on bolls left on the stalks, (February 28): Numerous in 
wild cotton on Cape Sable and on several' keys. 
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