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Egg laying by the first generation of the plum curculio was observed 
during the third week in June in the Fort Valley section of Georgia. Present 
indications are that ther-e will be a henvy second brood this year in this- sec- 
tion. In the Northern States tnis insect is comparatively scarce. 
Although the oriental fruit moth is quite generally reported as scarce 
in the Eastern States, an unusually hee/vy infestation was reported from Missis- 
sippi. 
The seed corn maggot., the cabbage maggot, and the onion maggot were 
destructively abundant in a number of localities in the Eastern and Central 
States. These outbreaks were associated with cool, wet weather,, 
From South Carolina to Kansas and southward blister beetles were un- 
usually troublesome on a wide variety of truck and flower-garden crops. 
The corn ear worm is occasioning more than the usual amount of damage 
in the Southern States and adults were observed as early as June 12 at Marietta, 
Ohio, 
The Mexican bean beetle emerged about 2 weeks later than usual in the 
New England and Middle Atlantic States, By the ^nd of the month this insect 
was generally destructive throughout its range. 
Heavy infestations of peas by the pea aphid are reported from Connecti- 
cut and New York westward to North Dakota and southward to Mississippi, 
The carrot beetle is appearing in destructive numbers from Michigan and 
Minnesota southward to Missouri and Kansas, 
The pepper weevil, which was discovered in Manatee County, Fla,, in May, 
was reported as increasing and to have destroyed 80 percent of the crop in cer- 
tain fields at the end of June, 
• The boll weevil is reported generally over the South Atlantic and Gulf 
States, The infestations are rather spotteo throughout the entire area. 
The beet armyworm is seriously attacking cotton in Arizona, New Mexico, 
and western Texas, 
The cotton leaf worm infestation was so heavy by the middle of June 'in 
the Gulf coast area of Texas that poisoning operations were necessary. 
Unusually heavy infestations of the forest tent caterpillar are report- 
ed from the New England States ?/estward to Minnesota, 
An extensive outbreak of bagworms was reported from Tennessee and 
Alabama, 
Severe infestations of larch by the larch case bearer were reported 
throughout New England, 
