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COLOPADO POTATO BEETLE 
The first adults of the Colorado potato beetle ( Leptinotarsa decem- 
lineata Sa3 r ) were' observed at Lucedale, Kiss., on February 19- During the 
last week in March, the insect was observed in Ter:as. Baring April the 
beetles became unusually abundant in the Chadbourre district of TTorth 
Carolina and in the llorfolk district- of Virginia.. Another heav T ^ infes- 
tation occurred during this month in northern Plorida. Daring May the 
beetle became very troublesome along the Atlantic seaboard as far north 
as southern Eew, Jersey, and it was also reported as very numerous in the 
Lewiston district of Idaho* Daring the late spring and earlv summer it 
was quite generally reported as abnormally abundant from the ITew England 
States and the Middle Atlantic States westward to the Great Plains, with 
a very severe outbreak in northwestern Iowa. Late in June it appeared in 
the city of Ogden, Utah, but \>^ the end of July the isolated colony had 
apparently been eradicated. In Idaho this insect is now moderately 
abundant in Grant and Baker Counties. 
POTATO TUBER WORM . 
Paring the early spring, reports of heavy infestations of potatoes by 
the potato tuber worm ( Gnorimo schema operculella Zell. ) were received from 
Los Angeles County, Calif. Between April 15 and May 1 more than 1,200 lugs 
of new potatoes were rejected in the Los Angeles wholesale markets on account 
of this- insect. During the third week of June larvae were found attacking 
tobacco at several pla.ces in Kentticky. A. slight infestation of tobacco in 
Georgia and Tennessee was also reported during Jtme. Late in July reports 
were received from Osceola and Palm Beach Counties, Fla. , that this insect 
was doing considerable damage to potatoes in storage. It wa„s also found 
early in the year in potatoes in storage in Delaware. Por the first time 
in many years this insect was observed during August damaging tobacco in 
Wisconsin. . 
TOMATO PJK WOHM 
.. In the late summer and early fall reports '•'ere received from south- 
eastern Pennsylvania that the larvae' of the tomato pin worm ( Gn o r im o s c h ema 
lycopersicella Busck) were making : large blotch mines and destroying the 
buds of tomatoes, both under glass and in the field. Late in November 
adults emerged and were identified by Mr. A. 3usck as this species, which 
heretofore has been recorded only from the Pacific Coast, where it has been 
known for a number of years as a pest of tomatoes, particularly in the State 
of Sinaloa. in Mexico and in southern California. Here it is a pest of 
considerable importance. In 1930 it occasioned a 40 per cent loss to the 
tomato crop in San Diego Comity, Calif. 
VEGETABLE WEEVIL 
The vegetable weevil (Listroderes obliquus Gyll.) was first observed 
during the last week in January 1931 at" Vicksburg, Miss. During late winter 
and ea,rly spring it did severe injury in many localities, in some cases 
entirely destroying turnip fields and cabbages in hot bods. It continued 
