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abundnnt enough in tobacco plant beds in parts of Florida to require control 
measures. Similar damage to tobacco plant beds and also to early set tomato 
plants was reported from Georgia. This year the vegetable weevil was reported 
from Cherokee County, Tex,. This is an area where tomatoes are grown extensively 
and where heretofore this pest was not recorded. In southern California the 
weevil was reported as damaging cover cr'ps in citrus orchards early in March, 
Celery was heavily infested late in that mo ntl;butanlv scattered reports of serious 
damr.ro to other garden vegetables were received. Early in May the weevil severe- 
ly attacked newly set tomato plants, 
PEA APHID 
The pea aphid caused a great deal of injury to alfalfa in the Middle 
Atlantic States, Utah, southwestern Idaho, and on the Pacific coast. Some injury 
was caused to conning peas in the Middle Atlantic States, Wisconsin, and Utah. 
Early in the season the warm dry weathpr in the Middle Atlantic States favored 
rapid reproduction and more damage ' ' .to alfalfa than usual occurred in 
Delaware and New Jersey, The insects migrated early to peas and, although the 
early varieties on the Western Shore of Virginia escaped injury, early peas on 
the Eastern Shore of that State and in Maryland were damaged. In New York, on 
Long Island and in central Not York the aphid was found on poas during the first 
half of May, but cool, damp weather following”: checked development and only light 
damage occurred. Some damage to peas in the North-Central States was reported. 
On the West coast, although very early in the season, the weather was favorable 
and the insect became conspicuous, unfavorable weather in March held it in check 
and it was April before it got off to a good start. It caused serious injury 
before the middle of May. In central and southern California the second cutting 
of alfalfa was damaged instead of the first cutting as usual* Late in fall 
favorable weather in the Eastern, North Central States, South Dakota, and Utah 
permitted a heavy increase in populations mostly in alfalfa, 
MEXICAN 3EAN. BEETLE 
The Mexican bean beetle passed the winter successfully and began emerging 
earlier in the spring than usual over most of its range. However, the rather 
cool, rainy weather in the northern part of its range retarded reprodiiction and 
e-'irly beans generally were not so seriously injured as in some years. By the 
first of July injury war. being reported generally, and continued to be severe 
until the end of the season. The insect extended its distribution west of the 
Mississippi River, having been reported for the first time from Louisiana and 
Arkansas, where it was injuring beans in the field. It was also discovered in the 
field in southeastern Missouri, which is the first record of injury in the State, 
The .insect was previously taken at Saint Louis in a Japanese beetle trap in 1936. 
In central Maine find in New York around Lake Erie where the insect occurs locally, 
it ns found during the season to have spread and also to be causing real injury 
for the first tine. It was reported from Hinds County, Miss., which is the first 
record for that county and which extends the distribution southwestward in that 
State, The insect is becoming more abundant and injurious in southern Georgia, 
and it was found for the first time in Gadsden County, Fla., the second infestation 
in that State, It "'as reported from Jefferson County, Fla., in 1933, Some injury 
was reported from east-central Utah and severe injury from Arizona and Colorado. 
