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ALFALFA 
ALFALFA WEEVIL ( Hypera postica Gyll.) 
Utah. G. F. Knowlton (February 23): Adult alfalfa weevils were 
twice observed to "be active during the very mild winter at 
Logan. 
California. A. E. Michelbacher (February 2l): Owing to the 
mild weather, the alfalfa weevil has "been active all winter. 
On January 11, in a field at Pleasant on in which the late 
fall growth of alfalfa was not cut, an average of J>6 adults 
and £3 larvae were collected per 100 sweeps of an insect 
net. In a similar field in the San Francisco Bay area an 
average of 1 adult and U5 larvae were collected. In most 
fields the counts were much lower than those given above. 
On February l6 the highest average number of larvae 
collected for 100 sweeps of a net in the mo3t heavily in- 
fested field in the San Joaquin Valley was 106, at Pleasan- 
ton 5. an( i i n the San Francisco Bay area H9. In the San 
Joaquin Valley adults of Bathyplectes cur culionis Thorns. 
were scarce, while. in the San Francisco Bay area they were 
rather abundant. 
CLOVER 
GREEN CLOVER WORM ( rlathypena scabra F. ) 
Mississippi. C. Lyle (February 23); On January lk a corre- 
spondent at Enterprise, in Clark County, sent in adults 
with the statement that her house, woodpile, and all out- 
houses were fall of them. J. M. Langs ton observed their 
presence around bloomdn.- pear trees at Collins, in Coving- 
ton County, on February 5* 
VETCH 
PEA APHID (Illinoia p_isi Kltb.) 
Louisiana. L. 0. Ellisor (February): The pea aphid is damaging 
vetch in the central part of the State. 
COWPEAS 
COY/PEA CURCULIO (Chal codormus aeneus Boh.) 
Virginia. T. L. Bissell (February 9): Hibernating around old 
cowpea fields in numbers at the Virginia Truck Experiment 
Station, Prince George County. One specimen of C. collaris 
Horn was found in hibernation in broom sedge. 
