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The Mexican bean beetle is causing heavy damage in Alabama and Georgia 
and locally in Tennessee and Kentucky. It has extended its range considerably 
this year. Twenty-four new counties have been infested in Georgia, Kentucky, 
Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina. 
The boll weevil situation is but little changed from last month. Heavy 
or increasing infestations are reported from parts of North Carolina, 
Mississippi, South Carolina, and Georgia. Moderate to light infestations occur 
in Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, southern Alabama, and Louisiana, and the 
greater part of Texas. 
The cotton leafworm outbreak reported in the last number of the Survey 
developed rapidly. The first larvae were reported from Hines County in south- 
central Mississippi on July 21. The first-generation flight appears to have 
extended as far north as Dallas County in Texas, Desha County in Arkansas, 
and Oktibbeha County in Mississippi. The main flight seems to have taken 
place prior to^'the last week in July, as larvae were reported from these 
counties on July 31. By August 14, u^ths were found in Garvin County, Okla. 
and Washington and Mississippi Couni^ps^Ark. Inasmuch as moths of the second 
generation were found at Talluldh, La., on August 14, it seems that the first 
flight of moths did not extend far they ^iStf 1 central Texas, southern Arkansas, 
and northern Mississippi, while the moths of the second generation had gone 
as far north as central Oklahoma and northern Arkansas by August 15. 
The satin moth has become permanently established in western Washington. 
The elm borer is killing hundreds of elm shade trees in the eastern 
half of Kansas. 
An epidemic of the two-lined poominent on oaks is covering central 
North Carolina* 
The worst outbreak of the pine butterfly ecer recorded in Idaho is 
now under way. The larvae have completely defoliated about 14,000 acres of 
yellow pine. 
