I i 3 S C T FAST S U A V A Y 3 U L L ." T I H 
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SHE ?&KE PTOBTAKT EKTO'SOLOGICAL IGCOADS 127 THE UI7ITED. STATES 10a 
'&3GE 1936 
Heavy infestations by cutworms were reported from Colorado and 
Arizona. 
Throughout the northern ~5art of the chinch bug belt this insect 
suffered winter mortality as high as 50 percent in parts of Iova, Illinois, 
and Indiana.. In the States farther south mortality was considerably lover; 
however, there are sufficient bugs over -nost of the infested territory to 
cause serious damage if favorable spring v.eather prevails. 
G-reen bug appeared during the third reek in March in Comanche Count y, 
Okla. 
Heavy infestations of hessian fly are reported from central Missouri 
southward. Similar infestations are reported from southeastern Kansas and 
■parts of Oklahoma. 
Corn ear rorn was active throughout the vrinter in the Brownsville, Tex., 
district and \>y the middle of March ras appearing in numbers in that region. 
Jy the third week in the month e^ laying was observed in the uoner coastal 
section of the State. 
Aggs of the Auropean red mite are unusually numerous in the Kew England, 
Middle Atlantic, and East Central States. 
G-reen apple aphid is reported as generally abundant in the Me T " England 
and Middle Atlantic States. Heavy infestations of rosy apple aphid are fore- 
cast from Virginia and .'Jest Virginia, as eggs are very numerous. 
High mortality of San Jose scale is reported in the Aa.st Central States, 
where very severe subzero vea.ther occurred the past rintor. 
High mortality of codling noth occurred in the Aast Central States* 
Although weather conditions have been favorable for the emergence from 
hibernation of the plum curculio in the peach section of C-eorgia, practically 
nono vere observed in the orchards in the vicinity of fort Valley up to the 
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