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Louisiana. J. W. Ingram and '7. S. Haley (May 15): Beetle injury to sugar- 
cane in the section west of the Atchafalsya River is tne lightest in 
several years. Injurv has "been less than 30 percent of that in an 
average year. Timely rains in the infested area have increased the 
growth of cane so that it is out of danger of serious injury. 
RICE 
SUGARCANE FEITLS (Zuetb sola nagicens Lee.) 
Louisiana. VT. A. Douglas (May 2Q): A surve - " - of the southwestern Louisiana 
rice "belt has been made to obtain data on the extent of injury to rice 
by the sugarcane beetle. Six thousand stalks were examined in 12 
fields and the percentage of killed plants found to he 3*3- Fifteen 
hundred of these stalks , or 3 fields, were in the Kinder-Oberlin section, 
where the percentage of killed plants was 5«8. Most rice fields have 
now been flooded and no more sugarcane beetle injury will occur, except 
on planted levees, until the rice is drained for harvest. 
RICE STINK3UG ( Solube a rag nax Fab.) 
Louisiana. W. A. Douglas (May 29): Pice stinkbugs are breeding rauidly 
on various wild, hosts in the Louisiana rice section, the favorite wild 
host being Paspalum urvillei . 
RICE WAT3S. UEEVIL ( Lissorhontrus simplex Say) 
Louisiana. U. A. Douglas (May 2Q): F.ice water weevils are present in 
about average numbers in the Louisiana rice section. Adult feeding 
scars are noticeable on a fe' -7 small areas, but aside from this there 
is no apparent injury to the rice crop. 
FRUIT INSECTS 
APPLE 
CODLING MOTH ( Carpocansa pcmonell a L. ) 
New York. F. J. Parrott (May 20): Indications point toward large popu- 
lations of codling moth in western New York. 
Delaware. L. A. Stearns (May): On April 30, 65 Percent of overwintered 
larvae had transformed. The spring-brood moths first emerged en May 5« 
Pennsylvania. H. N. Worthley (May 28): A single moth emerged from an ob- 
servation cage at Biglerville on May lU, and in 5 bait pails- on May 18 
only one moth was taken. Continued cool weather delayed further activ- 
ity until May 23, when 7 moths emerged and 6 were caught in the rails. 
In l r 34 the heaviest moth flight occurred between May 1? and 2k, when 
U76 moths were trapped in 5 bait -pails in the same block of trees. 
