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The walnut caterpillar was reported in destructive numbers from Virginia 
to Elorida and westward to Wisconsin "and Oklahoma. • • ■ 
. The Mexican "bean "beetle "became abundant in extreme northwestern New 
York, in Virginia, Ohio, and Indiana, also in 'the Gulf region. 
The harlequin "bug is "building up heavy populations in southeastern , 
Virginia. 
The corn ear worm was reported as causing commercial damage to peanuts 
in Oklahoma. This is the first report of serious damage "by this insect to 
this crop in Oklahoma. 
The worst infestation of tobacco "by hornworms ever reported from Mary- 
land occurred this year. Damage was most serious in southern Maryland, where 
entire fields were stripped "before harvest, and severe damage was later done 
in the tobacco barn. 
Infestation by the pink bollworm in the Big Bend area of Texas was 
heavier and earlier this year than last. 
Late in the season considerable defoliation and ragging of cotton "oj 
the cotton leaf worm occurred over much of the Cotton Belt. 
The bollworm was quite generally prevalent .from Georgia to Texas, al- 
though upland cotton was practically made before worms became very numerous. 
Serious damage, however, occurred in parts of Texas. 
The locust leaf miner occurred in outbreak numbers in Virginia aid 
North Carolina. 
The larch sawfly is at a very low ebb in the Lake States. 
The European spruce sawfly has increased to alarming numbers through- 
out the northern part of the New England States. . . • . .'.'... 
Severe damage to lawns by the hairy chinch bug was, reported from New 
York, Connecticut, Ehode Island, and Ohio. 
An unusual number of reports from the northeastern fourth of the 
United States indicates an outbreak of fleas. 
