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Vol 7 Cctooer 1, 15^7, To. o 
' OUTSTAZ'IDIIIG 21rT0:X)LCC-ICAI.. h^ATU3:5S IIT TH3 UlTITIil) STATES PCS SEPTS.IBIiE , i 327 
.4. serious Trliite- gxxCo infestation is reported fron the Sast Central 
States from ■western Indiana to eastern reoraska £>j.id I^ansas. 
The first serious -out "break ox the fall aruijnjorni since I920 is under 
'Jay in eastern Kansas and . Oklahoma, llinor ouforeaks have "been reported frora 
Indiana, llississippi , and Ala'cama,. 
The riessian fly situation h^s not chai^^ed nateriall:/ since our last 
rgport. A recent survey in ITehraska shov;s that the sit-y^'tion.is not particu- 
larly menacing , "hile ,on the, ^ther hand, in south-central. -^nsas there is 
every indication of serious trouble fron this pest. It '.vas discovered for the 
first ti-.p.e in Sedg-.-dck County, Colorado, -.here, in inc.ivid^jal cases, daitiage 
amounted to approximately 10- per- cent of the crop. 
The alfalfa ^7eevil has very slightly extended its area of infestation 
in Colorado this .3/ear, 
report of Fuller's rose beetle attacking coy'^oeans in I'orth Carolina 
is the first record of this insect as a pest to a field crop. 
■ The first record this season of dair^age to fruit by adults of the 
cotton leaf ^-/orm v;as received on. Septe-.v.ber 13 f-o.a Kansas. The late dstc and 
the locality make it evident that bi'.t little serior^s trouble is to be antici- 
pated from this -oest in the fruit belt. 
Unusually serious d?naj£;e by the apple ma^^pot is recorded thn.s season 
from the Zast Central States, extending frorr. llassachasetts to Tirgiania. 
The oriental fruit moth has been very destructive throtighout the most 
of the infested territory. It has been reported from JDela-vare . Covm.ty , Ohio, 
and is still spreadir^rg in C-eorgia. Yer^'' heavy perasitism of the second 
brood is recorded from Connecticut. 
One Japanese beetle -^as collected durin^ September at Perr.;^-ille , 
Cecil County, I.Iaryland, --vdch is outside of the previously laio-^ii infested area 
To specimens; of the !Ie;dcan fruit ■"orn have yet been foun.d in the 
grapefruit crop of 1327-23. The last one discovered • - " June 2} :/ ■-n :e 
fruit of the pre-"-ious season. 
--ccording to the most recent survey,, the territory covered by the ::ex- 
ican be^m beetle no',7 occu-oies the entire East Central and l.'iddle Atlantic 
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