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Arizona 
Texas 
California 
Arizona 
California 
California 
and Mexico 
GENERAL 
STATEMENT 
Arizona News Letter 9 Fol. 3, No. 9 (September 30)* The following 
was reported by the district inspector from Safford and vicinity: 
"The cotton leaf worm has distributed itself well over the 
entire valley. This is considered good^ as much of the cotton 
is rack and the defoliation is aiding in the maturing of the 
late cotton." 
BOIL WORM (.-leliothis o bsoleta Tab.) 
E W. Eaake (October 2Q): Recent counts made in local fields 
and markets of late field corn show 100 per cent infestation. 
Many of the ears are damage to such an extent that they are 
unman ke table for roasting ears. 
White Co Barber (August 21): This insect is working on 90 
acres of cotton in 7£ern County and the damage is less than one- 
half of 1 per cent so far. 
F„ R« Braun (September ?3)* Attacked young bolls last week in 
August; older bolls throughout September. Apparently all 
pupating by October 1. 
T. B, Urbahns (Sept amber 27): The boll worm is proving to be 
a cotton pest in new cotton districts of the Sacramento Valley. 
BROWN COTTON BUG 'Suechxstus ?eyru-s Say) 
Arizona ilews Letter, Vol. 3; No. 9 (September 30): The following 
was -reported by the district inspector from Safford and vicinity. 
"The brown ccttcn bug was found in a field near Safford. By an 
actual count of a number of plants it was found that mere than 
50 per cent of the bolls had failed to mature propeily." 
A HYMEITOFTEROUS PARASITE ( Apanteies bueculatricis .■Mutes .,0 
A. W« Morrill (Sent ember 19)" I sni pending a hymenopt erous 
parasite bred from B ucculatri x t hurberiel la pupa, the larva having 
been collected on cotton at Hermosillo, Sonora. I am perhaps 
assuming too much in saying that this -^as bred from a pupa. The 
larva spun up and the parasite appeared from the cocoon. 
COTTON LEAP PERE0RATER ( Buccula* rir t hurbsriella B usck) 
T. D. Urbahns (September 19): H. H« Clerk, Manager of the 
Colorado Bi;er Land Co., l/Iexicaii, Mex. , reports serious losses 
to 'their cotton crops in Mexico and Calif ornia by this species. 
COTTON RED SPIDER ( Tetranychus t el arra s L.) 
the 
B. R. Coad: An outbreak of/ red spider occurred during the latter 
part of June and the first fifteen days of July in Arkansas, 
Georgia, eastern South Carolina and eastern North Carolina, 
disappearing, however, during the latter part of July. 
