INSECT PEST SURVEY B U L L E T I N 
Vol. 19 
May 1, 1939 
No. 3 
TIE MORE IMPORTANT RECORDS EOR APRIL 
The hatching of economic ■ specie s of grasshoppers "began in' the -Southwest dur- 
ing the last week in April. An outbreak of Oe dale one bus enigma Scudd. and Me lan - 
oplus devastator Scudd. was reported from the San Joaquin Valley of California, and 
of M. muxicanus Sauss. in the Imperial Valley, In Florida the eastern lubber grass- 
hopper was seriously damaging narcissus in Clay County. 
A north African and Indian weevil, Ilypera brunneipennis 3oh., was found for 
the first time in North America. Specimens were collected by L. P. Wehrle through- 
out approximately 15 square miles in the , luma Valley of Arizona. Report has also 
been received of specimens having been collected in Imperial County, Calif. 
There was a general increase in the larval population of the alfalfa weevil 
in the San Joaquin Valley of California. Present indications are, however, that 
the area infested has not increased. 
The pea aphid occurred- earlier than usual and in rather large numbers through- 
out the Middle Atlantic and South Atlantic States. It is also reported in eastern 
Kansas and in parts of Utah and Arizona. In Washington State the" first damage re- 
ported in 10 years was under way in the Walla Walla district. 
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The San Jose scale appears to be on the increase in western New York and 
Georgia. 
Emergence of codling moth adults was reported from Alabama on April 4, in 
the Cornelia section of Georgia on April 24, and in the Yakima Valley of Washington 
State on April IS; In general throughout the apple-growing sections of the countrv 
winter survival is high. 
Fruit aphids are generally numerous in the New England Middle Atlantic East 
Central, and West Central States, 
The green citrus aphid was occurring in numbers in the upper east-coast 
citrus-growing section of Florida and is doing considerable damage to oranges in 
the Orlando section. There is also rather heavy infestation of citrus rust mite 
m practically all citrus -growing areas of that State. 
The Mexican bean beetle first appeared in south-central Georgia on April 11 
and on the ISth adults were found in the tidewater sections of Virginia. 
novene ; nt of the pea weevil from hibernation quarters to the 
? ... 1 mu- ln . the Wlllanette Valley of Oregon occurred during the third week in 
April, ihis is nearly a month earlier than in 1938. 
Illinois nk and°lowa are r ° p0rted as rather abundant on shade trees in Pennsylvania, 
Complete defoliation by tent caterpillars 
is occurring in northern California. 
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