INSECT PEST SURVEY BULLETIN 
Vol. 19 
March 1, 1939 
No. 1 
THE MOHE IMPORTANT RECORDS EOR JANUARY AND FEBRUARY 
The chinch hug can© through the winter with hut 'little mortality in 
lows and Nebraska. . 
Reports from the South Atlantic <and East Central States indicate that 
the Son Jose scale wintered with a very high survival, 
A report from Indiana and one from Washington indicate that codling moth 
passed the winter with hut little mortality in the East Central States and 
the Pacific Northwest, 
The cabbage lo-^per caused severe injury to cabbage im the Galveston, Tex., 
and Charleston, S, C., areas. 
The diamond-back moth was generally prevalent and doing some damage in 
South Carolina and Texas. 
The turnip aphid did much more damage than usual during February in the 
Gulf areas of Louisiana .and Texas. 
The common red spider was extremely abundant on strawberry plants in the 
Norfolk, Va. , and Chadbdurne, N. C., areas, 
A very high percentage of loss was occasioned by the seed-corn maggot on 
spinach in the Charleston area of South Carolina, In attacking spinach this 
insect leaves the soil and infests the buds. 
Late in October 193^ pink bollworm was found at Mesa, Ariz, This brings 
the Salt River Valley section back into the area known to be infested. 
The spring cankerworm apparently overwintered with but low mortality in 
Illinois • 
