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and the southern half of Maine. , Considerable defoliation of various trees 
was reported. The insect was reported in considerable ahundan.ce on raspberry 
in the northern point of the Southern Peninsula of Michigan. It was reported 
from northeastern Minnesota as defoliating thousands of acres of "birch, poplar, 
and willow. 
BAGWOEM . : 
A severe outbreak of the bagworm occurred over most of the country- 
east of the Mississippi Hiver, especially, from a line drawn from central Ohio, 
Indiana, and Illinois southward to include Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, and 
Mississippi. Isolated infestations were reported from southeastern Nebraska 
and central Texas. 
A NATIVE WEEVIL 
The following note, dated October 1, on Agasphaer o ps nigra Horn, was 
received from C. F. Doucette: "Serious injury to bulbs and underground stems 
of Li Hum longiflorum by larvae has. been observed in the southwestern coastal 
area of Oregon. In one planting about 15 percent of the bulbs were attacked, 
and in spots 100 percent were attacked. There is evidence that the infestation 
originated from native lily bulbs growing in brushy areas near the plantings. 
It is apparent that the weevil is a real menace to the production of this 
species of lily bulb in this district." This is the first record of damage by 
this weevil to be received by the Insect Pest Survey. Leng, in his Catalogue 
of the Coleoptera of America North of Mexico, records the weevil as occurring 
in California. 
SCBEW WORM 
Infestations of animals by screw worms were observed in the southern 
part of Georgia and in northern and central Florida during January and Febru- 
ary 1335* The heavy infestation in southeastern Louisiana, southern Mississ- 
ippi, and southwestern Alabama was completely wiped out during the winter 
of 1S3^"35« * n April and early in May a few scattered cases began to appear 
in central and western Georgia and in southeastern Alabama. From the South, 
where the pest successfully overwintered, it spread northward as far as the 
southern boundary of North Carolina, into southeastern Tennessee, and west- 
ward through the southern half of Alabama to the eastern Mississippi line, 
with only a few cases in the northern Alabama counties. For some reason, 
probably owing to the intensive campaign against the pest conducted by the 
Bureau and to certain ecological factors not yet determined, screw worm 
flies did not become reestablished in Mississippi and southeastern Louisiana 
in 1935* -A- 3 the season advanced, the incidence of infestation increased 
until the peak was reached late in the summer or fall. Of the Southeastern 
States, Florida probably suffered the greatest damage from the pest, because 
of the longer season of fly activity and more favorable climatic conditions, 
which permitted the building up of a larger fly population. Approximately 
90 percent of the infestations occurred in cattle and hogs with the number of 
infestations in each of these two classes of animals about equal. As a re- 
sult of the educational and control campaign, the screw- worm incidence in 
1935 i n the Southeast was not as high as in 193' : « "he highest percentages 
of infestation recorded for any weekly period during the 1935 season for the 
