APHIDS (Aphi^dae) 
South Carolina. J. G. Watts (March 14) : About 10 percent of the cabbage 
plants at Blackville are infested with cabbage aphid. Both 
hymenopterous parasites and syrphid predators are active. 
Mississippi. C. Lyle (March 22): Reports of injury to cabbage plants by 
plant lice, probably Brevicoryne brassicae L., received from the 
Jackson and Grenada districts and the northeastern part of the State. 
Only light damage caused. 
Louisiana. C. E. Smith (March 27): The cabbage aphid (B. brassicae ) has 
been unusually abundant at Bo.ton Rouge on seeding stalks of cabbage, 
collards, mustard, and young spring cabbage throughout March. 
SWEETPOTATO 
SWEETPOTATO WEEVIL (Cylas formicarius E. ) 
Louisiana. K. L. Cockerham (February 23): Five examinations in field 
plots and 7 field examinations on heavily infested farms in the 
vicinity of Sunset, St. Landry Parish, southwestern Louisiana, and 
also examinations in longevity cages, indicate that all adults that 
had emerged from sweetpotatoes in the fields prior to the extreme cold 
weather from January 15 to February 1, wore killed. A low temperature 
of 11° F. was recorded. Some live larvae, pupae, and adults have 
been found in sweetpotatoes taken from the surface of the ground on 
several farms and dissected, but apparently the percentage of living 
specimens is less than that in preceding years, when the cold was not 
so severe. 
COFFEE-BEAN WEEVIL ( Araecerus fasciculatus Deg.) 
Alabama. J. M. Robinson (March 23): Found attacking sweetpotatoes at 
Aliceville on March 2. 
STRAWBERRY 
RED SPIDER ( Tetranychus sp.) 
Louisiana. C. 0. Eddy (March 2b): Numerous enough in some of the 
strawberry fields in eastern Louisiana to necessitate control measures, 
TOBACCO 
GREEN JUNE BEETLE (Cotinis nitida L.) 
Florida. F. S, Chamberlin (March IS): Specimens of larvae taken in 
tobacco plant bed at Quincy on March 15* (Det. by W, H. Anderson.) 
TOBACCO FLEA BEETLE ( Epitrix parvula F.) 
Virginia. C. B. Dominick (March 23); Very little warm weather in the 
Chatham district. None captured on flight screens to date. 
