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Codling noth entering fruit was reported quite generally over the 
Middle Atlantic and East Central States during the latter half of the month 
and, although generally reported as having suffered high mortality during 
the winter, populations wore increasing rapidly. 
Eastern tent caterpillar was reported as quite numerous throughout 
the New England and Middle Atlantic States. The peak was apparently reached 
last year and this year the outbreak seems to he on the wane. 
Apple curculio occurred in outbreak numbers in parts of Ohio, Indiana, 
and Missouri. 
Plum curculio caused more damage than usual throughout the New England 
States, New York, and westward to Indiana. Severe drought in the Port Valley 
section of Georgia delayed emergence of the adults, so that no trouble is 
anticipated to poach varieties that ripen before the Elbertas. 
Damage by oriental fruit moth is reported from the New England States 
southward to Virginia along the Atlantic Seaboard and westward to Illinois 
and thence down the Mississippi Valley to the Gulf States. In the East 
Central and Gulf States infestations were heavier than usual. 
From Massachusetts to Ohio, particularly in the Lake Region, the grape 
plume moth did considerable damage. 
An outbreak of the false chinch bug occurred from Michigan westward 
to Nebraska, the principal damage being done to strawberries, although a number 
of other crops were attacked. In California this insect damaged grapes. 
Several species of flea beetles were very numerous on truck crops from 
New York westward to Nebraska on the north and Missouri on the south, with 
similar trouble reported from Utah and Washington. 
The Mexican bean beetle was reported as less abundant than usual in 
the Ohio Valley and Northeastern States. Late in the month, however, the 
insect began to appear in destructive numbers over much of this territory. 
Heavy infestations of pea aphid were reported from New York to Wisconsin, 
with damage also reported from Kansas, Mississippi, and Utah. 
Heavy infestations of cabbage by the imported cabbage worm were reported 
from Pennsylvania and Virginia, westward to Missouri. Much early cabbage 
was also damaged in this region by the cabbage aphid. 
The first record of serious damage to celery by the parsley stalk 
weevil in New Jersey was reported this month. 
From Wisconsin and Tennessee westward to Nebraska and Kansas strawberry 
leaf roller was a major pest of strawberries. 
Cankerworms occurred in unusual numbers throughout New England, the 
Middle Atlantic, and East Central States, westward to Iowa and Nebraska. Severe 
