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California 
reached maturity p.s all that will escape damage* AJ1 varieties 
ace effected although the chili varieties are more easily 
dropped when slightly Infested than are the sweet or piraiento 
varieties* Approximately S CCD acres arn in the peppers this 
year. The weevil is more abundant as compared with last month. 
E8GPLANT Live?: EUS (Gar a solan \ Held,) 
J a M* Robinson (August 6): Iggplants ac Alexan&ta City have 
been approximately royed by the action of the eggplant lace 
^g, 
V7* A* Thomas (August 2&) ? At Chadbourr.e these small insects have 
just apps ared on the foliage of eggplant, "but are not doing 
serious damage. The bulk of the fruit is already harvested. 
CEIEPY 
GARDEN CABEION BEETLE (Silphfi. ramosa 3ey) 
E. C. Essig (August 25) J Adults and larvae attacking young 
celery plants in seedbeds of the Delta sections of San Joaquin 
and Sacramento Counties, doing serious damage. 
SOUTHERN FIELD -CROP INSECTS 
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BEhN THRIPS (H eliothrius fasciatu s ?erg, ) 
An Wo Morrill (August 10) 3 Thrlps, with little doubt the 
common bean thrips Heliothripr.> fasciatus, wane reported by a 
correspondent cooperating in cotton experiments es causing 
loss of 30 per cent of the foliage in a few spots in experimented 
field,,. 
BOLL '.7EE7IL ( Anthonomua ft and is Boh.) 
Cooperative report on cotton insects (August l6): In Texas 
weevils are reported throughout the central and eastern portions 
with widely scattered reports of damage. In Oklahoma weevil 
damage has been reported in the southeastern portion. In Arkansas 
damage is reported as being done by weevils in local areas in scmo 
of the eastern counties. In Iouisicna weevil damage is reported 
throughout the State, In Mississippi weevils are reported as 
on the increase, with considerable demage in some areas. In 
Alabama there is reported a general infestation of weevils with 
some damage in the sc on. Jn 7 some damage 
has been reported in 1 >c in the southwestern portion. In 
Georgia a few r ; - - ] -3 in local aruas in the 
northern portion have be ■ .. In Sc rolina a light 
weevil infestation is reported generally, with some . ;e in 
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