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A heavy infestation "by the webworn Loxostoge sticticalis occurred 
- in -the Big Horn Basin of Wyoming,... where some sugar heet fields, were com- 
pletely destroyed and heavy damage was done to a variety of truck crops. 
This insect was also troublesome in South Dakota and Utah. 
Damage hy hessian fly to wheat is reported from Ohio, with severe 
damage reported from Forth Dakota, Nebraska, and Kansas. 
Chinch hug in the East Central States has been materially reduced 
by rain. 
During the month corn car worn was quite generally reported as 
damaging sweet corn over the greater part of the country south of New 
England and westward to Utah. 
Decided increase in the European corn borer populations was re- 
ported from New York and Pennsylvania westward to Indiana and Illinois. 
The report on alfalfa woevil in Ohio in the last number of the 
Survey Bulletin was due to a nisdetermination (see p. 421 of this issue). 
Infestation by second-brood codling moth larvae was generally 
light to moderate throughout the country, with the exception of somewha.t 
heavy infestations in parts of Ohio and Illinois. Second-brood moths be- 
gan emerging during the first week in the month in southern Indiana, 
Missouri, and Virginia,. During the second week emergence was well under 
way in northern Missouri, Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, and during 
the third week in northern Illinois, New York, and Wisconsin. Adults 
were emerging in numbers in Washington State during the second week in 
July. 
European rod mite is reported damaging fruit trees from Pennsylvania, 
Ohio, and Michigan. 
Second brood of the plum curculio began to appear in late June and 
early July in the South Atlantic States. The curculio are somewhat earli- 
er than normal and the peaches arc somewhat later, resulting in consider- 
able damage to midseason and late varieties. 
Oriental fruit moth was reported as generally below normal in numbers 
in the New England and Middle Atlantic States. In Louisiana, however, the 
insect is more abundant than heretofore. 
The pecan nut case-bearer very seriously damaged the pecan crop 
in the vicinity of Crystal City, Te-x. « 
Heavy infestations of Florida red scale arc reported from parts 
of Florida. 
The citrus rust mite, though very abundant carl'/' in the month, 
has in most cases been brought under control by heavy rains in Florida. 
