SOUTHERN FI3LD-CP. OF INSECTS 
COTT OI! 
BOLL WEEVIL (Anthonoma9 ^r and is Boh.) 
GENERAL Cooperative report on status of "boll weevil and other cotton 1 
STATELET insects ac of July 15, Delta Laboratory, Tallulah, La. 
Weevil infestations continue exceedingly "spotted" over the 
COttonbhelt. In central and northern Texas the infestation is 
generally light and scattered whereas in a few of the southern 
counties higher infestations are reported. Infestations are 
exceedingly light throughout Arkansas and Tennessee. In northern 
Louisiana weevil infestations are generally light with occasional 
spots of severe injury, while in southern Louisiana high infesta- 
tions prevail generally with considerable injury. Some weevil 
injury has been reported in the Delta Section of Mississippi with 
generally low infestations in other portions of the State. Alabama 
and Georgia have generally light and "soctted" infestations in 
the northern portions with somewhat heavier infestations in the 
southern portions, Generally light infestations have been reported 
in the western sections of South '.'Carolina and North Carolina 
and considerable weevil injury in the eastern section of South 
Carolina end southeastern section of North Carolina. 
Jforth E. Sherman (June 30): Specific complaints of boll weevil damage 
Carolina are less than in former years, yet our field workers report that 
the invasion of fields by hibernated weevils was greater than we 
have heretofore experienced', especially in the southeastern 
part of our cotton area - - much less evidence of them in the 
higher (Biedmont) section. In the east and southeast they have 
been:'found as numerous as 300 to U00 hibernated weevils per acre. 
Georgia J. p, Jackson (July 0) : In our Survey conducted in lk counties 
in a strip extending across Georgia from Burke County on the 
east to Muscogee and Early Counties on the west we find the 
percentage of squares infested to be extremely uneven, varying from 
no infestation to 26.8 per cent with an average of about 0.5 
per cent in the eastern part of the State and from l.S per cent 
to 5U.0 per cent in the western part of the State, averaging over 
20.0 per cent. 
Alabama J. m. Robinson (June 30) : Boll weevils have appeared in larger 
numbers than last year. 
J. F. Jackson (July ll): In our survey conducted in 8 counties 
in the southeastern corner of Alabama extending from Lee to 
Covington Counties we find the percentage of squares punctured 
to range from less than 1 per cent to over lo per cent with an 
average of 9 per cent punctured. 
Mississippi R s ff. Earned (July g) • Boll weevils are still scarce in 
Mississippi. 
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