fairly common, and then dec rear- ed in numbers to about July 1* After this time 
only an occasional worn was noted throughout the remainder of the season. 
MEX ICAN BEAN BEETLE •• 
The survival over winter of the Mexican bean /beetle at Columbus, Ohio, 
was relatively high in the -spring of 1939 (33 percent). No doubt high survival 
was general in the Ohio Valley, as the insect was numerous in the f ield at South 
Point g.nd Cincinnati, Ohio, and at Louisville and Lexington, Ky. In southern 
Ohio beans that were not treated ,r, ith insecticides were defoliated by the beetle, 
and insecticide sales in the Ohio Valley were higher than in previous years, 
according to some dealers.- The beetle was numerous end injurious throughout 
eastern Kentucky, eastern Tennessee, and western North Carolina and South Caro- 
lina, and ’-as numerous and injurious even in some .locations in the coastal plain. 
(N. E. Howard, 3ureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, U, S. D./A. ) 
Note .— The Mexican bean beetle war reported in only moderate abundance gen- 
erally, ea-t of the Mississippi River, up to thc3 last of. June, with the exception 
of a few local heavy infestations in the South, especially . in southern Georgia 
.and across the State line in Gadsden Coxmty, Pi a* Injury became evident late in 
June and thereafter until fall the insect reproduced rapidly and caused severe 
injury in many places. This pest war found for the first tine this .year in Sum- 
ter and Choctaw Counties, Ala., and Jefferson County, N. Y. The infestation in 
New York is some distance from previously known infestations. 
TOMATO PINffORM ’ " 
The tomato pinworn* which was much less abundant during the first part of 
last season, increased rapidly in numbers during September, October, and November. 
In the Yorba Linda area, where the pinworn caused 46- to 60-percent fruit injury 
by July 15, 193^. only 3 percent of the fruit was injured at the sane date in 
1939 * By the end of the season (December 9)» following several weeks of hot 
weather, the pinworn had built up sufficiently to cause 8 to 34 percent .injury. 
During July a survey of 10 representative fields in the San Pedro area of 
Los Angeles County showed the pinworn present in only 5 fields. The degree of 
injury ranged fro ml to 18 percent. In other areas of Orange and Los Angeles 
Counties and in northern San Dio go County pinworq injury, which was usually ab- 
sent in lowland nr ; as , was not over 7 percent in the warmer upland areas by July. 
Later in the season only traces of pinworn injury v/ere reported in lowland areas, 
while it built up to injurious numbers i.n late upland fields near San Pernando 
and Santa Ana. At San Pernando pinworn injury built up from 8 percent injury 
September 28, to 30 percent injury by December 4. In the upland areas near Santa 
^■na, a representative field show d an average of 5S percent of pinworm injury by 
November 21, (J. 0. Elmore, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, U. S. D. A 
PEPPER WEEVIL 
Owing to cold '-oat her during the winter of 193&-* 39 * there was little night- 
shade and no berries in which the pepper weevil could breed early in spring. This 
resulted in a small winter carry-over of adults. The spring and early summer of 
1939 wore cool, so there -as only a light infestation in most of the peppeiugrow- 
in-g areas, and practically no commercial damage to the chili pepper crop. But, 
on account of a very warm fall, there was a gradual build-up of infestation and 
consequently heavy damage to fields of bell poppers. There is now (Jan. 1,194 o) a 
