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The alfalfa weevil is recorded for the first time on the eastern slope of the 
Rocky Mountains in Fremont, Natrona, and Converse Counties, Wyoming. The pest 
is now in the head waters of the Missouri River. This pest is reported as more 
abundant than during the Hast four years in Utah, 
Reports of unusual infestations of alfalfa by thrips have been received from 
Kansas and Montana* 
The Colorado potato beetle is unusually abundant in the southeastern States 
and Indiana, This pest now seems to be thoroughly established in the Yakima 
district of Washington, 
The potato leafhopper occurs in outbreak form in the Uoffolk section of 
Virginia and generally prevalent in the potato districts of Ohio, Indiana, Wis- 
consin, Iowa, and South Dakota. 
The potato aphid is seriously prevalent in Connecticut and on long Island, 
Hew York, 
The known distribution of the Mexican bean beetle has been very considerably 
increased during this season. The pest has advanced eastward to Monongahela and 
Tucker Counties in West Virginia^ within 20 miles of the Maryland State Line, north 
ward to the southern third of Indiana in Monroe and Fayette Counties, and west- 
ward to the northeastern corner of Mississippi. There has been practically no 
southward and but slight southeastward advance of this pest. 
The western spotted cucumber beetle occurs in outbreak form in the Sacramento 
Valley of California, attacking susceptible £ruck crops and seriously damaging 
ripe apricots and peaches. 
An unusual pest of onions, one of the phalacrid beetles ( St i Thu s a uicalis Welsh. 
is reported from Illinois, 
The codling moth is reported as decidedly more serious a pest than usual in 
Virginia, Ohio, and Illinois, Its injuries are also reported as very severe 
in Sonoma County, Calif,, but much less prevalent than usual in Washington State, 
The European red mite has been more troublesome than usual in New England 
and New York and is reported as also troublesome in the Lake region of 0hio o 
The oriental fruit moth is reported as much more abundant than last year in 
Connecticut and reports of damage have been received from Delaware, North Carolina, 
and Indiana. 
A rather unusual attack of wireworms was received from California, where the 
sugarbeet wireworm was found seriously daiaaging the bark of recently set persimmon 
trees. 
3oll weevil infestations continue exceedingly "spotted 11 over the cotton belt. 
Infestations are generally light in Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee, northern 
Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia, western South Carolina, and North Carolina, whereas 
in the Delta section of Mississippi and Louisiana generally high infestations 
prevail, as is also the case in southern Georgia and eastern South Carolina and 
North Carolina. 
