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The corn ear worm became seriously destructive in the Gulf region and 
tlie lower Mississippi Valley daring the early part of the month and was 
first observed in Nebraska about June 10 and in Maryland June 15* 
More damage has been occasioned to corn by sod webworms in the East 
Central States than lias occurred in a number of years, very serious damage 
being reported from Ohio westward to Iowa. 
The velvetbean caterpillar appeared in the Everglades of Florida on 
June 10. This is about two weeks earlier than in 1930. 
During the early part of June the rosy apple aphid developed to serious 
proportions in southern New England and in the Middle Atlantic and East • 
Central States extending southward to Arkansas. Very heavy infestations 
by this insect are also reported from the Pacific Northwest. 
First side-worm injury by the codling moth was reported from Massachu- 
setts about June 16. By the middle of the month eggs were hatching in the 
Eudson River Valley of New York and, by the third week of the month they 
were hatching in numbers in western New York. Side-worm injury had start- , 
ed in southern New Jersey by Juno 9. From the Hudson River Valley south- 
ward to Georgia the codling moth seems to be unusually abundant. Very 
heavy infestations are also reported from the greater part of the East 
Central States westward to Nebraska and Kansas. In the Pacific Northwest 
the codling moth situation is more serious than it lias been for several 
years. 
Apple leafhoppers are doing considerable damage in the Northeastern 
and Middle Atlantic States southward to North Carolina. 
The oriental fruit moth situation on the whole seems to be much less 
serious than at this tinje last year. 
Although the light infestation of the plum curculio reported in, the 
last number of the Survey Bulletin prevailed over the South Atlantic 
States, infestation by this insect developed to rather serious proportions . 
in the Hudson River Valley and Connecticut. The first beetle of this 
year's generation to be observed in a pupal cell was seen at Eort Valley, Ga. , 
on June 1. The first transformation reported last jrear was on May 23,.. which 
itself was considered late. 
Considerable damage was done in southern Georgia to pecans ^ir the ■pecan 
leaf case bearer, while in Florida the nut case bearer destroyed over 75 per 
cent of the crop about Jacksonville. In the vicinity of Albany, Ga. , the 
nut case bearer infestation is extremely light. 
The hickory shuck worm on pecan is occasioning considerable alarm in 
parts of Georgia and Mississippi. 
The Mexican fruit worm was found infesting locally grown fruit at 
Matamoros, Mexico, and in a grove near Mission, Texas. 
