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and westward through Oklahoma to Texas. Over 20,000 acres of oats were lost 
in one county in southeastern Arkansas. Reports of damage by this insect 
have also been received from eastern Virginia and the Eastern Shore of 
Maryland. 
General and heavy infestations of the corn ear worm are reported from 
Florida and Georgia, and around the Gulf to Louisiana. In Los Angeles County, 
Calif. , rather heavy infestations have been reported on sweet corn. 
The- chinch bug has been slow in leaving winter quarters in the East 
Central States. About the middle of the month localized but somewhat severe 
infestations were reported from South Carolina and Mississippi. 
The pea aphid is decidedly .abundant and destructive over a wide area 
attacking both alfalfa and peas. Reports of heavy infestation of alfalfa 
have been received from Virginia, Kansas, Utah, and the Pacific Northwest, 
while damaging populations on peas were recorded from southeastern Virginia, 
Delaware, and Maryland and parts of Ohio and. Utah. The insect is thus far 
comparatively scarce in Wisconsin. 
The clover leaf weevil has been unusually abundant in the East Central 
States and westward to eastern Kansas and Iowa. . , 
During the month the vetch bruchid was reported from four additional 
counties in Worth Carolina. 
Spring-brood emergence of the codling moth was about complete the 
third week in May in Georgia. In west-central Virginia the first moths 
were taken by the middle of the month, first moths appeared in Delaware on 
May 6, in Pennsylvania on May 19, and up to May 2Uno moths had yet appeared 
in the upper part of New York State. In the Mississippi Valley the peak 
of emergence was reached during the last week in the month in Missouri and 
southern Illinois. The first adults were observed in southern Ohio on 
May 17. Over a large part of the area the infestations are from moderate 
to high. 
Although in general the eastern tent caterpillar appears to be less 
abundant than it was last year, populations are heavy throughout New England 
and the Middle Atlantic States, in some places being even greater than last 
year. 
Fruit aphids , in general, are decidedly less troublesome than usual. 
The plum curculio infestation in the Georgia fruit belt is said to be 
the lightest in 18 years. No heavy infestations by this insect have yet been 
reported from any of the States. 
