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The Europe^ red mite is apparently on the increase in northwestern 
Virginia. Eggs of this mite are also reported as "being very numerous 
in Connecticut. 
Citrus aphid is very scarce in Florida, as is also citrus whitefly 
and Florida red scale, duo largely to partial defoliation of citrus caused 
by the cold weather. Purple scale is passing the winter successfully, as 
but little wood was killed. 
A heavy infestation of the potato psyllid was reported from Hidalgo 
County, Tex , early in January. 
The banded cucumber beetle has consistently decreased with each cold 
spell during the winter and these insects disappeared entirely during the 
last cold wave. 
In parts of southern California, cabbage is 45-pcrcent infested by 
the imported cabbage worm. 
The heaviest infestation of sweetpotatoes by the sweetpotato leaf 
beetle was observed on storage potatoes in Arkansas this past winter. 
Popper weevils survived the winter in very large numbers in southern 
California, the survival being five times that normally observed. Due to 
the mild winter the weevils did not migrate from the pepper plants to 
nightshade, except where the pepner plants wore entirely destroyed. 
Household infestations by the bro\m dog tick were reported from 
New York, Michigan, Illinois, and Kansa.s. 
