SOUTHERN FIELD-CROP INSECTS 
COTTON 
General 
Distribution 
Alabama 
Georgia 
Louis iana 
Louisiana 
BOLL WEEVIL ( Anthonomus grand is Boh.) 
B. R. Coad and assistants: The boll weevil survey up to July 20 
indicates that the weevil has appeared in the cotton fields over 
practically the entire Cotton Belt. The present limits are within 
a line extending from Hidalgo County, in southeastern Texas, in a 
northwesterly direction through Bexar County to Cole County and 
Mitchell County, thence eastward to Montague County, in the north- 
eastern part of the State, thence across the State line in a north- 
westerly direction to Tillman County, Okla. , thence northeastward 
to the east-central part of the State in Okfuskee County, thence 
eastward into north-central Arkansas through the southern part of 
Polk County, to the northeastern part of the State in Sharp County, 
thence across the Mississippi River to the northwestern corner of 
Tennessee in Obion County, thence in a southeasterly direction 
through Decatur and Hardin Counties and along the northern border 
of Mississippi and Alabama, across the northern part of Georgia, 
including the entire State of South Carolina and northeasterly 
through Cleveland County, N. Car., and eastward across this State 
through Iredell, Stanly, Moore, Cumberland, and Wayne Counties, 
covering the southern third of the State. The region south of 
this line is generally infested. 
W. E. Hinds (June 30): There is a very heavy survival of boll 
weevils throughout the southern half of two-thirds of the State, 
and it may be also through the northern part of the State. In 
some counties weevils are reported as being more numerous in the 
cotton fields at the time the squares begin to form than ever 
before. At Auburn in some experimental plat work we are finding 
from 50 to 100 weevils per acre at the time squaring begins on land 
that has not been in cotton during the past six years, which in- 
dicates an unusually abundant movement from cotton field areas to 
newly planted cotton fields, I think the heaviest I have ever known. 
COTTON APHID ( Aphis gossypii Glov.) 
0. I. Snapp (July 15): Cotton aphids have been observed in numbers 
on cotton at Fort Valley. 
COTTON CUTWORM ( Prodenia ornithogalli Guen.) 
T. K. Jones (July): Larvae were sent in from Pleasant Hill on 
July 3 and from Long Bridge on July 6. 
B0LL w 0RM ( Heliothis obsoleta Fab . ) 
T. H. Jones (July): Larvae were received from Dubberly (Webster 
Parish) on July 10 and from Grant Parish on July 14. 
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