A SCALE ( Odonaspis ruthae Kot.) 
Georgia. P. M. Gilmer (February l): Taken from "breeding plats of Bermuda grass 
at Tifton. Pound on stems approximately at ground level or just "below. 
Damage not serious, although scales occur in considerable numbers on some 
stems. They seem to congregate about the .nodes and especially under the 
small bracts. (Det, by H. . Morrison. ) 
CEEEAL AND FORAGE -CROP INSECTS 
WHEAT 
CHINCH BUG ( Bliss us leuc opto rug Say) 
Iowa. H.-E. Jaques (February 24): Chinch bugs are coming through the winter 
without any large percentage of loss. 
Nebraska. M. H. Swenk (February 24): The population is not threatening for 
1939* except possibly in certain areas of Richardson and other counties in 
the extreme southeastern part of the State. 
ALFALFA 
* ALFALFA WEEVIL ( Hypera postica Gyll. ) 
California. A. E. Michelbacher (February 28) j Alfalfa fields in middle, low- 
land California surveyed on February 23 and 24. In northwestern San Joaquin 
Valley average number of larvae collected to 100 sweeps of the net ranged 
from 1 to 54 for different fields. Examination of alfalfa showed numerous 
small larvae feeding in growing tips. Feeding evident in certain- locations 
without close observation. Adults of Bathyploctes curculiOnis Thoms, 
present throughout the region. At Pleasanton no weevil larvae nor adults 
collected but Bathyplectos adults observed. In the region adjacent to San 
Francisco Bay average number of larvae collected for different fields ranged 
from 0 to 27 . Number of dead larvae observed; .cause of death undetermined 
whether owin^ to attack by fungus or to drying from abrupt changes iii 
temperature, Bathyplectes adults abundant. 
FRUIT INSECTS 
SAN JOSE SCALE ( Aspidiotus perniciosus Corns t. ) 
Georgia. 0, I. Snapp (January 20): Infestation on peach trees at Fort Valley, 
central Georgia, still greater than that of an average year. Temperatures 
have not been sufficiently low to cause any mortality and a high percent- 
age of the scales are alive in unsprayed orchards. (February 17 ): Still no 
mortality of San Jo^e scale, causing a greater infestation than average at 
Fort Valley. 
