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State, however, is very light. 
Although peach trees were "blooming the third week in Febru- 
ary in Georgia, no plum curculio adults had "been taken up to that 
time. 
Green citrus aphids were "beginning to appear the third week 
in February in the orange groves of Florida. In general , they 
wore not nearly so abundant as last year. 
The citrus rust mite was abnormally prevalent in both Florida 
and Louisiana in February. 
The vegetable weevil was reported as generally abundant from 
Florida to Georgia and westward to Louisiana. In many places it 
was doing serious damage. It has also been recorded, for the 
J second successive year, attacking plants in tobacco seedbeds in 
Florida. 
The banded cucumber beetle was reported throughout the Gulf 
region and in southern California. 
Severe damage to spinach by the western spotted cucumber 
beetle was reported from southern California. 
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Entire fields of tomatoes in southern California, wherever 
.'the vines have persisted through the winter, are very heavily in- 
' fested with the larvae of the tomato pinworm. 
A similar condition prevailed where pepper plants were 
J allowed to stand, these being heavily infested with the pepper 
* weevil in the same region — southern California. 
In western Illinois, cankerworm adults appeared in unusual 
numbers during the warm weather early in February. 
In Arizona the past winter has been one of extremely heavy 
SJR^W&arm infestation. 
Buffalo gnats were worrying cattle in Arkansas the last week 
in December. This is the earliest record for that State. 
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