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ALFALFA 
ALFALFA WEEVIL. ( Hyper a postica Gyll.) 
Colorado. G. M. List (June 22): Alfalfa weevil injury is the most serious 
ever observed. The population is higher in all of the areas than for 
several years. In Mesa County, in the area from Palisade to Mack, in- 
volving the entire Grand Junction region, the first crop will not be 
more than from one-third to one-half of normal. Scouting shows some new 
area involved. 
Idaho, C. Wakeland (June 22): I obtained l,44o larvae of the alfalfa 
weevil in one hundred sweeps of the net on June 13 in Council, Adans 
County. For the first time in 10 years, moderate injury is easily 
noticeable in many of the fields in that locality. 
R. W, Haegele (June 19): The infestation in southwostern Idaho is 
general, with considerable damage to numerous fields, e special ly in 
Canyon, Washington, and Adams Counties. This is the first injury of 
consequence in Canyon County in over 10 years. 
Utah, C. J. Sorenson (June 19): The alfalfa weevil is from moderately 
abundant to very abundant in Sevier County and elsewhere in Utah. 
California. A. E. Micholbacher (June 21): The larvae of the alfalfa weevil 
are rather scarce throughout its entire range in middle California. 
They are least abundant in the hot, dry San Joaquin Valley. In the 
cooler areas the highest number collected per one hundred sweeps of an 
insect net on June 20 ranged from 30 to Uo. In both the Pleas anton and 
the San Francisco Bay "areas parasitization by Bathyplectes curculionis 
Thorns, continues high. Based on examinations of from medium to large 
alfalfa weevil larvae, the parasitization rangos from SO to nearly 100 
percent, 
CLOVER 
CLOVER LEAF WEEVIL ( Hypora punctata Fab . ) 
Indiana, J. J. Davis (June 25): The clover leaf weevil was reported as 
destructive to sweetclover at South Whitley on May 29. 
Iowa. C. J. Drake (June 2^): Tho clover leaf weevil was found in consider- 
able numbers in alfalfa fields in Montgomery County. 
Hebraska. M. H. Swenk (June lU): The clover leaf weevil was reported to bo 
infesting alfalfa fields in Richardson County on May 29. 
A SCARABAEID ( Phobetus comatus Lee . ) 
Oregon. D, C. Mote (June): Larvae arc doing considerable damage to alfalfa 
at Hermiston. 
