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COTTON INSECTS 
BOLL WEEVIL ( Anthonornus grandis Boh.) 
South Carolina. E. E. Bondy and C. E. Rainwater (June 10): Boll 
weevils still emerging from cages at Elorence. Total of 740 
emerged during May and only 2l6 during May of 1938. Weevils not 
as numerous in the fields of Florence County as last year, there 
Being 1 weevil for 348 plants, as compared to 1 weevil for 200 
plants in 13}S. A number of egg punctures found. 
E. E. Bondy, C. E. Rainwater, and E. E. Bihby (June 17): 
Flight screen catches in Elorence County indicate that weevils are 
still emerging. A total of 199 taken from trap crop in June 1938, 
and to date 464 taken from trap crop of June 1939* Number of 
weevils found in fields about same as in 1933. (June 24): Woevil 
counts in fields of Elorence County showed check plots 4.9-percent 
infested; presquare and early treated plots 2.7-p°rcent infested, 
about the same an in 1933. A number of fields found with 10- 
percent infestation and higher are now being treated. A large 
number of first-generation larvae in squares now falling to ground. 
Georgia. P. M. Gilmer, et al. (June 3) : Infestation apparently about 
at the peak now in Dooly, Berrien, Tift. Cook, Lowndes, and Echols 
Counties. No increase noted except in occasional fields. Infes- 
tation spotted, very heavy in some fields and rather light in 
others, apparently correlated with distance from last year's 
cotton. Infestation apparently somewhat lighter than last season. 
(June 10) : Very heavy populations of hibernating brood observed 
in Tift, Cook, Berrien, and Lowndes Counties. Untreated fields 
often show considerably above 10-porcent infestation, averaging 
over all fields close to 5 percent. Generally spring infesta- 
tion from hibernating weevils that arc actually ovipositing is 
about average, or a little heavier than average throughout the 
whole area involved. Reports from northern Georgia indicate a 
severe infestation, heavier possibly than last year. Hibornators 
reported as hand-collected at the rate of approximately 200 per 
acre on untreated cotton. Treated cotton adjacent reported to 
carry weevils at the rate of about 1 weevil per 2 acres. 
P. M. Gilmer (June 17): Injury mounting in untreated fields 
in Tift, Berrien, and Cook Counties, and to some extent in treated 
ones. Weevil populations still rather high and percentage of 
injured squares somewhat on the increase. Moist weather apparently 
favorable to old adults and they are still present, while the 
first-brood population is beginning to appear. (Juno 24): In- 
festation decreasing as the interbrood period appears in Cook, 
Berrien, Tift, and Lowndes Counties. Total infestation reduced 
to considerably below half that of last week. First-generation 
weevils emerging in considerable numbers and peak expected next 
