-Uio- 
stikach 
G3EEN PEACH APHID {!/yzus oersicae Sulz.) 
Maryland. E. IT. Cory (October 22): Infestation general throughout pataosco 
Nee 1 :. 
C T T K INSECTS 
BOLL WEEVIL (An thonomus grandis Boh. ) 
South Carolina. F, IT. Bondy (Seot. 28): Most cotton around Florence has a 
luxuriant second growth and there apuenr to he Tore boll ^eevils than 
during any fall since 1929. (October 12): There pre large numbers of boll 
-oevils in the fields — nrore than any year since 1929. 
Alabarra. J. M. Robinson (October 23): The boll *-eevil is rroderately abun- 
dant. 
Mississippi. C. Lyle (October 23): Because of the general defoliation of 
cotton by Al aha .ra argillacea Hbn. over tort of the State, together HLth 
the early maturity of plants and shedding of leaves, boll reevils are not 
generally abundant in cotton fields. Rains .just beginning rray uroirote 
growth of the plants in sections Hie re they have not beer, killed by frost, 
but indications are that the number of ^eevi" 1 s entering hibernation rill 
be lo^er than normal. 
Louisiana. R. C Gaines (October 19): Collections of boll weevils on flight 
screens in Madison Parish on similar dates for several years indicate 
ferer boll reevils in the fields this fall than durin^ the r^ast 3 years. 
Oklahorra. F. A. Fenton (October 19): Reports indicate fe^er boll reevils 
present in the fields than at this time last year, desoite the fact that 
the rainfall this year ^as greater than last. 
Texas. R. W. Moreland and A. B. Beavers (September 21): In Brazos and 
Burleson Counties ^eevil infestations are building mo in fields where 
sauares are plentiful. (October 19): Weevils are abundant in fields 
rhere sauares and young bolls ^Te plentiful. Collected 10,000 <~eevils on 
October 14 for hibernation cages "ithout any trouble. 
K. P. E-ing and R. L. McGarr (Seuttober 2l): In Calhoun County damage 
continues in most fields ^here unopened bolls are present. 
THURBSRIA WEEVIL ( Anthonomus grand is thurberiae Pierce) 
Arizona. W, A. Stevenson end T. M. Breazealo reported on October 15 a 0. 6-oer- 
cent infestation of cotton bolls by the thurt pia weevil in a 52-acre 
field of cotton at Midvale, in the Santa Cruz Valley, about 5 wiles south 
of Tucson. This is the first record of the thurberia -eevil in coirrercial 
plantings of cotton in the Tucson district this season. 
