SOUTHERN FIELD- CROP I IT S E C T S 
COTTON 
COTTON FLEA (Psallus seriates Reut. ) 
Texas F 8 L. Thomas (May 21): Eomplaints regarding the cotton flea? 
one of which proved to he a coccinellid, are "beginning to be 
received. 
COWPEA CURCULIO ( Che 1 coder mus aeneus Boh. ) 
South J, A* Berly (May 12): This is the first injury we have had of 
Carolina this insect for this season. They appear practically every spring 
and do slight damage to young cotton quite often confused with 
the boll weevil. 
CORN ROOT APHID ( Anur aphis maidi-radrc is Forbes) 
South J a» Berly (May 12): We have had only one report this season 
Carolina in regard to the cotton root louse. 
BOLL WEEVIL (. Anthcnomus grand is Boh. ) 
North Franklin Sherman (May 26): First specimens out of hibernation 
Carolina were captured April 15, two specimens in different counties in 
warmer region of the State. The next similar finding was April 25. 
These three findings were before cotton was up; one was caught on 
the back of a man in a field planting cotton, the other two were 
taken from peach trees incidental to curculio work. 
The first specimen found on young cotton was captured "on or 
about May 1-'" in the wafcmer part of our State (Scotland County) 
and was mailed May 20, with two others, all three being alive 
when it was received. 
The above dates (mid-April) for first findings out of hibernation 
are approximately the same as in 1923, but finding weevils on 
young cotton on May lU is about a week earlier than the first 
similar record in 1923. 
Mississippi J. E„ McEvilly (May S): Several thousand pounds of calcium arsenate 
and dusting equipment bought by"~>the farmers in this section to 
combat ravages of the weevil this season. 
Texas 
Porto 
Rico 
B, R» Coad (May 1): The boll weevil was reported on April 23 as 
plentiful on young cotton in the Rio Grande Valley in the vicinity 
of Pharr, Tex. 
F. Lo Thomas (May 21): The hibernation work with the boll weevil 
is still being carried on, but to date only 10 weevils have 
emerged out of over 5»000 which were placed in the cages. 
A COTTON STaINER ( Dysdercus andreae L. ) 
Arthur H. Rosenfeld (May IS): I made rather an interesting 
observation on the 12th inst. at Hacienda Isidore, near Santa Isabel, 
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