INSECT PEST SURVEY BULLETIN 
Vol. 20 
Supplement to No. 7 September 20, 1940 
ALFALEA WEEVIL SCOUTING, 19 40 
By J.,0. Hamlin, senior entomologi st 
Bureau of Entomology ancl Plant Quarantine 
United. States Department of Agriculture 
Scouting for alfalfa- -weevil during 1940 was limited by closing of the 
alfalfa weevil laboratory consequent upon completion of the practical, aspects 
of the problem. The work performed, in cooperation with State officials, in- 
cluded (l) scouting along the Union Pacific Railroad right-of-way through 
Kansas end Nebraska and near its eastern terminus in Iowa, as well as in sev- 
eral Nebraska, counties that received alfalfa hay from weevil-infested- areas 
of the Great Ba.sin during, temporary inoperation of Nebraska’s alfalfa weevil 
quarantine during the winter of 1935; (2) a survey of the Saratoga and Encamp- 
ment areas of Carbon County, Wyo. 
The scouting in Kansas, Nebraska, and Iowa involved taking 112,100 sweeps 
in 110 fields located in .28 counties. The- results were negative and are 
presented in table 1., 
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