INSECT PEST SUEVEY BULLETIN 
Vol. 19 
November 1, 1939 
No. 9 
THE MORE IMPORTANT RECORDS FOR OCTOBER 
Fuller's rose ’beetle was reported damaging kale and a number 
of broad-leaved evergreens in the Norfolk section of Virginia. 
The fall armyworm was generally prevalent and doing con- 
siderable damage along the Atlantic seaboard from Norfolk to 
southern Virginia and around the Gulf from Alabama to Louisiana. 
The velvctbean caterpillar seriously damaged cowpeas and 
soybeans from North Carolina to Florida and westward to Mississippi. 
Large numbers of chinch bugs are entering hibernation, from 
Indiana to Iowa and southwestward through Missouri to Kansas. 
European corn borer was generally less prevalent than last 
year in New York, except in the upper Hudson River Valley, Reports 
were received from northeastern North Carolina and two specimens 
were taken in Cook County, 111. 
The clover head weevil ( Ty chius picirostris F.), first found 
in Puget Sound region of Washington State in 1929 > was found in 
considerable numbers in the four northern counties of the Willamette 
Valley, Orcg. , this year. It was also found in Deschutes County, 
east of the Cascades. 
Comstock's mealybug ( Pseudococcus comstocki Kuw.) has appeared 
in injurious numbers in several localities in the Shcnandoah- 
Cumberland area, a particularly heavy infestation occurring near 
Crozet, Vo.. 
Corn ear worm did considerable damage late in September and 
early in October in the trucking section from Maryland to Georgia 
and Mississippi, being particularly destructive to cruciferous 
plants. Lettuce and tomatoes were damaged from moderately to 
severely in California and Utah. 
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