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PEA WEEVIL 
Pea weevil infestation records for the Palouse area of Idaho and Washing- 
ton for the 1940 crop season show that the average infestation for all locali- 
ties in Idaho (Palouse area) was 3*75 percent and for all localities in Wash- 
ington (Palouse area.) was 4.17 percent* The average for the area as a whole 
was 4.17 percent. These figures a.re considerably lower than the averages for 
the crop year 1939 > which were 8.40 percent for Washington, 10.48 percent for 
Idaho, and 9»04 percent for the area as a whole, (T. A. Brindley, Bureau of 
Entomology and Plant Quarantine, U. S. D. A.) 
SWEETPOTATO WEEVIL 
In the period from July 1937 1° the early part of 1940, surveys for swe 
potato weevil infestations had been conducted cooperatively with the States 
in l48 counties in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, and Texas. Thirty-nine of 
these counties (list attached) were found infested, and 26 of this number 
designated as areas in which the eradication of the weevil would be undertake: 
cooperatively. They are located in the areas of commercial production where 
wild host plants do not persist throughout the year, and where the pest does 
not persist the year round. To the close of 1940, weevils have apparently be< 
eradicated from 11 of the above-named counties, and the number of infestations' 
in other counties drastically reduced. More than 1,200 properties in the 
eradication areas have been found infested, and through subsequent control 
activities it has been possible to release 93 percent of those properties fro. 
quarantine. 
In 1939, 7 counties in southern Arkansas were surveyed without finding 
the weevil. In 1940, Federal-State cooperative inspection va.s extended to tli, 
part of Louisiana, lying north of the area, where infestations were known to be 
generally distributed and no weevils were found. The work was conducted in 
28 parishes lying north of and including East Feliciana, West Feliciana, 
Concordia., Catahoula, La Salle, Grant, Natchitoches, and Sa.bine, The inspec- 
tion consisted of checking planting stack in the field, as well as the seed 
beds, and in some cases wild host plants also. 
The counties infested from July 15 , 19 37* to December 1940, were as fdQowr 
Alabama; Baldwin, Butleq?, Conecuh^/.Mobile, total, Georgia: Camden, Charl- 
t on, Bz Glynn, Thomas, total, 4; Mississippi: Amite , Covington,—* 'Forrest , Geor 
Greene, h7 Hancock, Harrison, Jackson, Jefferson Davis— (. Jones, Lawrence— ( , 
Marion, Pearl River, 'Pika, Stone, Walthall, total, l 6 ; Texas: Angelina, Ba.st 
Brazos. .Cherokee , Gregg?/ Grimes, Lee, Milam, Nacogdoches, Sabine, San August) 
Shelby-/ Smith?/ Upshur?/ Walker, Williamson, total, l 6 ; grand tota.1 for the 
4 States, 40 counties. 
Found infested in 1940. 
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Weevils apparently eradicated from these comities. 
(B. M, Gaddis, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, U.S.P.A 
