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Late peaches in central Georgia were heavily infested by second-brood 
plum curculio. Severe damage was also reported from Mississippi, parts of 
Ohio, and Michigan. 
Rather heavy infestations of grapo leaf hopper were recorded from New 
York through the Lake States to the Great Plains and in Utah. 
Colorado potato "beetle has "been found on the western edge of the Twin 
Falls area, an important potato-growing section in south-central Idaho, not 
previously infested. This insect is also more abundant than last year in 
the Ogden- Clinton area of Utah. 
Potato psyllid was causing very serious damage to potatoes in the North 
Platte River valley in Nebraska. 
The potato leaf hopper is more abundant than it has been for several 
years in Ohio. 
The harlequin bug was reported in damaging numbers in Delaware, Maryland, 
Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri, and Oklahoma. 
Blister beetles were very generally reported from most parts of the 
country, often doing serious damage to truck and flower gardens. 
Heavy infestations of forest tent caterpillar are reported from Ver- 
mont, Massachusetts, and New York. 
General infestations by bagworm are reported from Delaware southward 
to Georgia and in the lower Ohio Valley States; also from parts of Texas. 
Eln leaf beetle was reported as quite generally prevalent in the New 
England and Middle Atlantic States, southward to Virginia and westward to 
Ohio. 
Walnut caterpillar was unusually abundant in the Ohio and Mississippi 
Valleys. 
A very heavy outbreak of chironomid midges occurred during the month 
in the artificial lakes and lagoons on the site of the New York World's Fair. 
The Lone Star tick was collected for the first time in New Jersey 
this year. 
