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COTTON INSECTS 
BOLL WEEVIL ( Anthonomus grand is Boh.) 
South Carolina. E. E. Bondy, et al. (July 8) : Emergence from cages at 
Elorence slightly less than average. (July 15) : General increase 
in Elorence County, hut only a few fields badly infested and being 
damaged. (July 22): Weather conditions favorable this week, and 
damage begun in some fields, while few are found in other fields. 
Some field movement, and 25 caught on screen trap in the trap crop. 
Georgia. P. M. Gilmer, et al. (July 1): Injury from first-brood adults 
has begun in Tift, Berrien, Cook, Lowndes, and Echols Counties. 
Average infestation on untreated cotton in experimental plats rose 
from 3.1 percent to 10. 7 this week. Treated cotton showed an in- 
crease from approximately 1.5 to 5 percent for the week. Injury 
all fresh, most squares on June 28-29 not being flared. (July 8): 
Activity in Tift, Berrien, Cook, .and Lowndes Counties marked by a 
sharp rise in infestation levels, owing to first-brood activity. 
Indications of spreading out over territory heretofore lightly 
infested shown by increased infestation in isolated fields. (July 
15): Second-brood adults beginning to appear in considerable 
numbers in this area. Now fairly common in the bloom, and infesta- 
tion records show a rise over the previous week. 
Florida. C. S. Rude (June 17) i Specimens sent in from Hillsborough 
County. Field visited and infestation of almost 50 percent found. 
(July 8): Twenty-five fields visited during the week in Lake, 
Alachua, Gilchrist, and Union Counties. Infestation ranged from 
5 to 83 percent. (July 15 ): Little change in infestation since 
last week in 34 fields examined in Alachua, Gilchrist, Marion, Put- 
nam, Union, and Lake Counties, except in Lake County where there 
has been a general increase. (July 22): Examinations made in 54 
fields in the above counties show infestation to have increased 
somewhat over a week ago. For the week ending July 23, 193^, infes- 
tation almost exactly the same as this year, except in Lake County, 
where no infestation occurred last year until about mid-August. 
Several fields in Hillsborough County examined. No counts made, 
but weevils reported as doing considerable damage. 
Alabama. J. M. Robinson (July l4): Abundant around Auburn. More abun- 
dant in northwestern Alabama than for several years. 
Mississippi. C. Lyle (July 24): Infestation high in all sections of the 
State, except the northeastern corner, although, generally, about 
the same as in 193^. In the Delta high infestations near all wooded 
areas and fairly low in open plantations. 
E. W. Dunnam, et al. (July 22): In Washington County weevils 
are rapidly spreading to large open areas. Maximum square infesta- 
tion near wooded areas around 50 to 60 percent in untreated cotton. 
