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high weevil population which, unlese checked, "before the winter is over, may cause 
heavy infestations in the 1940 crop, (Hoy E. Campbell and. J, C, Elmore, Bureau of 
Entomology and Plant Quarantine, U. S. D, A.) 
ASPARAGUS BEETLES 
The common asparagus "beetle has "been reported for the last 2 years in much 
greater abundance than heretofore. It was reported from new localities in States 
known to "be infested, and Alabama and Idaho reported first State infestations in 
1932. This beetle was first reported as injurious in this country on Long Island, 
N. Y. , in 1859, evidently having been introduced several years before. It spread 
northward and southward along the coast and by 1885 it was reported from- Massa- 
chusetts to Norfolk, Va. By this time it had spread westward to Geneva, N. Y, , 
through eastern Pennsylvania, and near Washington, D. C, There was evidently a 
commercial jump, for in 1SS4 the insect was reported from western Pennsylvania 
bordering Ohio, and in 2 or 3 years from the adjoining part of Ohio. Erom this 
focus of infestation the insect spread around the southern part of the Great 
Lakes, reaching northeastern Illinois in 1902 and southeastern Wisconsin in 19l4. 
By 1920 its distribution included an area enclosed by a line from southeastern 
Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, and Virginia to the Atlantic. In 1926 
it was reported from Missouri. Its southwestern movement seems to have been slow. 
It was not reported from South Carolina until 1929 . In 1937 it was reported from 
Georgia and in 1938 from Alabama, 
In the western part of the United States it was reported as established in 
the San Erancisco Bay district in 1906, and was later reported from north-central 
California. It was reported from southern California in 1928 and since that time 
has occasioned considerable injury. It was reported from Oregon in 1917 , In 
19 it was reported from south eas tern Washington, and was not seen west of the 
Cascades untn 1936 . Further spread in that part of the State was observed in 
t lnsect v,ns reported from Colorado in 1915 and has spread very little. 
In 1937 it was observed near Great Salt Lake in Utah and in 1938 in southwestern 
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onlv ^ed asparagus beetle, a rarer and less injurious species occurs 
the uSt ed W qtntJ h 0I £ n 0 :?~ ffmrth of the country. It -as first discovered in 
^ ^ n cnr Baltimore, Md. , in 1881. Erom there it spread, especiallv 
South Carol inf 1 whorJ'oo,i"idor"hiU h spru ? i slc ’ rar and it has not reached 
onr.torn nart of S o asparagus is grown. It a, as reported in the 
in 1925 Sd caste™ W i 91 ?,'*"? ?<""* *•*-"*•• ro - h “S Ohicogo 
attached map shops approximately' the distribution. ** P “ a ' * flnn ‘ ’ ln x 939. The 
BOLL WEEVIL 
pr ob ab ly® loss ^ in"^ 1 939 ° than^ onv ^3% Unit ?£,5 tntOB caused V the ^oll weevil was 
to the Losses caused bvSe^eovUdSr?n" t§ 33 ’ eXCGpt 193g * ^ about equal 
caused more damage in 193 9 than fj/s^velol va® J n sorae States the weevils 
Boll weevils caused notably less drnmm- ^ i-V w ln ° ther States less d<*unage. 
northern Georgia during 1935 than in 193 g w t’ arolina » South Carolina, and 
greater damage in Florida Anther/ 8 S a, 7 ’"’ ere raor * abundant and caused 
in 1938. In Louisiana ^ ““V ^BlsBippi in 1 93 9 than 
about the same in 1939 ~s in 1Q88 mu -n P -Pulatim and damage was apparently 
got ions in Virginia,' Tennes Burenu conducted no cotton-insect investi- 
tunity to observe the had no oppor- 
