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A noclorntely he.n,\’y infestation of garden ™e"ov,'orns in trnok crops is reported 
from North C'^rolina, '’rith severe, dsc.vo.go' hy d species 'of Loxosteye to sxigar 'beets 
"bein^ yrovra for seed in Arizona. , . 
Poa aphid is much more numerous this fall than it h,->s 'been for sever, ol years 
in Wisconsin. 
Rather severe injury to "beans "by the Mexican 'bean "beetle is reported, from 
North O'’ rolina, Tennessee, Mississippi, and. Arizona. 
Th'e loickle worn was o'oserved considera"bly north of its normal ranfpe this 
year in Rhode Island. 
Heavy popul'^tions of "l^oll weevil .are reported from South Carolina, Florida, 
Mississii'pi, Louisiana, and Texai*>, 
A heavy infestation of the moth Hotorocampa man too D'^'ildy. was o"bsorved in 
the Ghippe’va National Forest in northern Minnesota. The insect was defoliating 
"birch, Lass wood, and oak. 
A new outbreak of Douglas fir tussock moth is appoxently started in the Blue 
Mountains of eastern Oregon, with a snoller irjfest.stion in the Malheur National 
Forest in southe.astern Oregon. The last outbreak of this species occurred 10 
yco.rs ago. 
V/estern pine beetle shows an incre,ase over the last 2 years in eastern 
Oregon and Washington and in the southern Sierras of California. 
Very heavy infestation of Nantucket pine shoot moth was observed on the 
Island of Martha*s Vineyard, Mass. 
An intense inf est-ition by the Evj','~^pean spruce sa”'fly was observed in New 
Hampshire ’with concentrated infestations throughout Maine, Vermont, and ,e, as tern 
New York. 
