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infested strawberry fields and stored in the laboratory for ascer- 
taining overwintering adult crown "borer conditions, have shown that 
between 12 and 20 adult crown borers pass the winter in the soil 
and plant debris in an area of approximately 20 square feet. 
BEANS 
GREEN PEACH APHID (Hyzus persicae Sulz.) 
Florida J. R. Watson (February 25); In late December and early January 
beans were generally heavily infested with Myzus persicae . The freeze 
of January 3 destroyed the hosts and of course the infestation of 
aphids as well. 
PEPPER 
PEPPER WEEVIL ( Anthonomus eugenii Cano) 
California. J. C. Elmore (February 21); At present the pepper weevil is known 
to occur in Ventura (first found here in January, 1928), Los ^'jigeles, 
Orange, San Diego, Riverside, and San Bernardino Counties. As indi- 
cated, Ventura County is a new locality and a very important one 
because pepper growing has become a very important crop there. The 
pepper crop in Orange and Los Angeles Counties was damaged about 25 
per cent on the average with the losses running as high as 50 per 
cent in some places. The lesser damage compared to the previous sea- 
son was due to the late spring and control operations. During the 
present winter immature states of the weevil have been found in aban- 
doned fields to date (February 20). This condition is unusual as it 
is not common to find larvae and pupae so late in the season. Basing 
our estimate on previous knowledge, the pepper weevil will probably 
be among the front ranks as an outstanding insect pest this coming 
season. Many abandoned pepper fields have remained standing where 
until recently, it has been possible to collect hundreds of adult 
weevils for hibernation studies. 'There appears to be no hibernation 
so far this winter. This point is very interesting in view of the 
very definite hibernation period with the cotton boll weevil. 
TURNIP 
VEGETABLE ".'EEVIL ( listronot us obliquus G yll.) 
[ississippi R. \: . Harned (January 17); On January 7, J. E. iicEvilly, Inspector 
of the State Plant Board at Laurel, wrote as follows: "I recently 
called on Mr. George Leatherberry of the Bucatunna Canning Company, 
and investigated the insect that caused great loss to turnips during 
the months of November and December. I made an inspection of !?.n old 
turnip field ".nd found the damage to be caused by the Australian 
tomato weevil or turnip weevil. I found larvae of this insect just 
below the surface of the ground. They were dead owing to the recent 
freeze. Mr. Leatherberry stated that about 90 per cent of the tur- 
nip crop in that section was killed or damaged by this insect. They 
had planned on packing 25,000 crates of greens but actually packed 
7,000, They 
