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The severe frost of December so interfered with new growth on citrus in 
Florida that the citrus aphid was reduced practically to negligible numbers. 
The vegetable weevil was considerably less prevalent in Mississippi than 
it has been for several years. 
The tomato pinworm was observed during the third week in February at- 
tacking tomatoes at San Juan Capistrano, Calif. 
Rather severe damage to garden peas by the seed corn maggot was report- 
ed in Charleston, S. C. 
Overwintering forms of the diamond-back moth are about ^0 percent 
parasitized by Angitia hellulae Vier. in the Norfolk area of Virginia. 
The strawberry root aphid was very prevalent late in February in Vir- 
ginia and Louisiana, and red spiders were very prevalent on strawberry in Vir- 
ginia and Mississippi. 
Emergence of canker worms began during the first week in January. 
Eoth species are very prevalent. 
Two additional infestations of the gypsy moth have been located in Penn- 
sylvania, one in Bear Creek Township, Luzerne County, and the other in Tobyhanna 
Township, Monroe County. 
During early December light infestations of the beech scale were found 
at six places near Scersdale, N. Y«, this being the first time that the beech 
scale has been' reported from New York. 
The infestation of dried fruit at storage plants in the Sacramento 
Valley last fall by the fig moth was said to have been the heaviest ever experi- 
enced in this region. 
