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Geor -ia 
Geor/ia 
Mississippi 
PALL T7I!I3WO?tM ( llyphantria cunoa Drury) 
Mississippi C. Lyle and assistants (August): Fall wcbwoms are unusually 
scarce in Mississippi. 
PECAN WEEVIL ( Ou.rcv.lio carjae Horn) 
T. L. Bissell (August?27): Adult weevils be~an puncturing 
nuts about July 25 at I.iilner, Ga. Injury is light in Schley 
and Stuart pecans at Strouds Crossroads in Monroe Co., Ga. 
A PECAN APHID ( Monellia costalis Fab. ) 
T. L. Bissell (August 27): Aphids are exceedingly scarce on 
pecans. 
H. Dietrich (August 19): The black-margined aphid ( Monellia 
costalis ) has become very abundant on pecans at Leakesville, 
Leaf, and Luce dale, the leaves being covered with the black 
fungus growing in the honeydew. At Leake sville a woman had a 
lot of ornamental shrubbery planted under pecans, the leaves 
of which were all covered with the black fungus growing in the 
honeydew dripping from the pecans. 
BLACK PECAN APHID ( Myzocallis fumipenr.ellus Pitch) 
T. L. Bissell (August 27): Aphids are exceedingly scarce. 
Has been negligible injury in the Experiment area this year 
on pecans. 
C. Lyle and assistants (August): This aphid has been so 
scarce that nc control practice has been necessary in many 
localities; however, it was appearing about the third week in 
the month in George and Stone Counties. (Abstract, J.A.H. ) 
FLAT-HEADED APPLE TEES BORIS (Chrys obcthris femorata Oliv. ) 
H. Dietrich (August 19): The flat-headed apple tree borer 
adults have been flying all the month in increasing numbers and 
can be beaten from neglected pecan trees. 
CODLING MOTH ( Carpocaps a pom onella L. ) 
California Monthly News Letter, Los Angeles County Agricultural Commissioner 
(July 15): Walnut growers in Los Angeles County this -'•ear sprayed 
over 4,500 acres of walnuts for control of the codling moth 
according to H. H. Wilcomb, Deputy Agricultural Commissioner. 
Considerable crop loss is caused by this pent each season and 
it has been definitely proved that its control is an economic 
practice. 
Georgia 
Mississippi 
Mississippi 
