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Emergence of first-brood plum curculio from the ground was late this year. 
Practically all of the earliest varieties of peaches have "been harvested in. the 
peach-growing sections of Georgia and were remarkably free from damage. This in- 
sect is reported as being more abundant than usual in Mississippi and Texas* 
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Blister beetle injury was reported from the South Atlantic States and west- 
ward around the Gulf to Oklahoma and Kansas. 
Flea beetle damage to potatoes and garden vegetables was somewhat severe 
over the New, England Stat es. : and New .York and westward to North Dakota. .,;. 
The seed-corn maggot has seriously damaged shade-grown tobacco in the 
Connecticut River Valley, and a variety of field and garden crops- from New York, 
through Michigan and Indiana, to North Dakota. Damage was also reported from 
Colorado. ... ■ . 
; An outbreak of the green stinkbug occurred about the middle of the rad»th 
in. Alabama and Mississippi, the insects seriously damaging cotton, peas, beans, 
and miscellaneous truck crops. In Mississippi, the outbreak is said to he the 
most severe ever recorded. 
:;■ Injury by the vegetable weevil necessitated 90-pe rcei it replanting in to- 
mato fields in San Bernardino County, Calif. 
The Mexican bean 'beetle., is more ahundant than it has "been during the last 
2 years in the New England States. The insect is generally prevalent throughout 
the Middle Atlantic States and the lower Mississippi Valley. 
Heavy infestations of the pea aphid were reported from western New York and 
Long Island. This pest is also sufficiently numerous in northern Utah to require 
control measures. 
t Squash bugs appear to "be somewhat more troublesome than usual in New Eng- 
land, Middle Atlantic, and South Atlantic States. Damage was also reported from 
Mississippi and Kansas. 
; Very hea"vy outbreaks of the asparagus beetle were reported from Massachusetts 
and New York. , 
... ; A heavy outbreak of tohacco flea beetles occurred in the Piedmont sections 
of Virginia and North Carolina, southward to Florida, and westward to Tennessee. 
The cotton flea hopper is generally reported from the Cotton Belt. In 
parts of Texas this insect, is attracting more attention than the boll weevil. 
The cotton leaf worm appeared ahout 2 weeks later than last year in south- 
ern Texas. The first worms were found in Nueces County on May 27 » in Calhoun 
County on June 9» and in Jim Wells County on June 19* 
,• Thrips: injury to, cotton has been reported generally from South Carolina to 
Texas. 
