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STRiiiraSREY ROOT jIPHID ( iiphis forijosi TTced) 
Virginia. H. G. ’talker and L. D. Anderson (RclDriiary 20) : Rgge and young 
found in straw oerry fields at Norfolk on February I 3 . 
Utah. G. F. Knowlton (riarch 1): Aphids ( Aplii s sp.) ,arc da.na^'^ing straw- 
herrios in experinenta,! greenhouse at Logan, 
A RED SPIDFE ( Tetranychus sp.) 
Virginia. H. G. Walker and L. L. iVnoerson (February 20): Found, in a 
nunhor of strawberry fields in the Norfolk area. 
PEPPER 
PEPPER WEEVIL (*Vnthonoms eugenii C^o) 
California. J. C. Elmore (Leceraber IQ, 193^) ! " Uot particularly numerous 
in Los iingeles County during the summer but now causing serious losses 
in bell popper fields. Practically all of tho immature pods infested 
in a field at San Fernando. (February 20) ; This pest has su-rvived the 
winter in very large numbers in Orange and Los j:ingeles Counties. An 
average of 11 adults collected per cubic foot of nightshade and. pepper 
foliage in two localities in each county. This is about 5 times the 
normal survival. 
COTTON INSECTS 
BOLL 'FEEVIL ( Anthonomus grandis Boh. ) 
Georgia. T. L. Bissell (February 27); Minimum temperatures at Experiment 
in January and February were - 15 . 6 '^ and. -4. 4*^ F, Only one dead, 
specimen was collected thereafter, on February 5* 
Alabama. J. M. Robinson (February 29): TJ.1 boll weevils collected in the 
last few days have been dead. 
Oklahoma. F. A, Fenton (FebrUtary 20); Owing to weather conditions, the 
population of the boll weevil has undoubtcd.ly been greatly reduced 
over much of the State, with the possible exception of the south- 
eastern part. 
