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INSECT PEST "SURVEY BULLET 
Vol. 12 October 1, 1932 
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THE MORE IMPORTANT RECORDS FOR SEPTEMBER, 1932 
The situation with respect to the principal insects attaching field crops, 
including grasshoppers, white grubs, Hessian fly, chinch bug, and corn ear 
worm, has not materially changed since our September 1st report. 
. Two flower beetles (Euphoria ind a L. and E. sepulchral is Fab.) were attract- 
ing attention by injuring vegetables and flowers throughout the Mlssissip-oi Val- 
ley region from North Dakota to the Gulf. 
g The southern corn stalk borer was reported as unusually abundant in North 
Carolina, as high as 95 per cent of the stalks in some .fields being infested, 
and in some instances heavy infestation caused considerable breakage of stalks. 
What is believed to be the beet webworm seriously infested alfalfa fields 
in Duchesne and Uintah Counties, Utah, this year. This is the only serious 
outbreak of this insect in this State during the past ten years. 
Erom present indications it appears that the plum curculio will hibernate 
this fall in greater numbers than it did last year in Georgia. 
Probably in consequence of the continued rainfall deficiencies over parts 
of the East Central States, damage by the shot-hole borer is decidedly more 
prevalent in deciduous orchards than usual in that region. 
A red spider ( Tetranychus pacificus McG. ) has apparently extended its range 
from San Joaquin and Stanislaus Counties to Fresno, Tulare, and Kern Counties 
in California. This insect is one of the serious vinifera grape pests. 
An unusually heavy population of the pecan leaf case bearer is entering 
hibernation in southern Georgia, indicating serious infestations next spring. 
A new infestation of the citrus whitefly has been found about 4 miles 
northeast of the infestation at Pasadena, Calif., discovered last summer. 
Blister beetles continued to be very destructive to truck and ornamental 
crops along the south Atlantic seaboard and in the lower Mississippi Valley. 
The banded cucumber beetle is occurring in very destructive numbers in 
Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia, where it is damaging beans, sweet- 
potatoes, and other truck crops. 
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