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The Asiatic garden "beetle has "been reported as increasing in abundance 
in the District of Columbia and nearby Maryland. 
The white-fringed beetle has been discovered in the following localities 
heretofore not known to be infested:A rather general infestation in the 
vicinity of Monroeville, Monroe County, Ala.; Conecuh County, Ala.; Mobile, 
Ala.; Pass Christian, Harrison County, Miss.; Bolton, Hinds County, Miss.; 
Carriere, Pearl River County, Miss.; and with a general extension of the 
area known to be infested about Gulfport, Miss., and New Orleans, La. 
The stalk borer was reported as doing considerable damage to tomatoes, 
sweet corn, and several flower-garden plants from New York to Maryland and 
westward to Missouri and Nebraska. 
The beet webworm was locally abundant on sugar beets and garden plants 
in parts of the Great Plains and the Great Basin. 
Army worm outbreaks were reported from New England, Middle Atlantic, 
East Central, and Plains States. 
Corn oar worm seems to be about normally abundant throughout the 
Eastern and Southern States. 
Heavy infestations of sweet corn by Europoan corn borer were reported 
from Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Ohio, and Indiana. 
No serious chinch bug infestations developed in the East Central States. 
This insect, however, did considerable damage in limited areas in Missouri, 
Iowa, and Texas. 
Three additional counties, Box Butte, Kimball, and Banner, in western 
Nebraska, one county in northeastern Colorado, throe counties in north- 
central Wyoming, and two counties in southea«tern Wyoming not previously 
known to be infested by the alfalfa weevil were found infested this year. 
The insect was also found in southeastern Douglas County, Oreg. 
Codling moth infestations in the Eastern States were generally normal 
to subnormal during July. 
Fruit aphids, particularly the rosy apple aphid, were somewhat more 
abundant this month in the Middle Atlantic and New England States, westward 
to Minnesota, Missouri, and Kansas. 
Oriental fruit moth is reported as moderatoly abundant in the Now 
England, Middle Atlantic, and South Atlantic States, but seems to be on the 
increase in parts of Virginia, northorn Georgia, and parts of Ohio and 
Kentucky. 
