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be^ns were severely damaged. The fall crop was not severely damaged, the 
beetles going into hibernation earlier than usual and also probably 
migrating. The prolonged drought in that section may reduce winter 
survival." (W. F» Howard, Bureau of Entomology j U, S, D. A.) 
VEGETABLE 'YEEVIL. 
"Scouting for the vegetable weevil ( Listroderes obliquus G-yll, ) 
has been carried on luring the past year, with the result that the 
known distribution has 'oceu considerable/ extended. Thirteen infestations 
in six counties of the San Francisco Bay region have been found at the 
following points: San Rafael, Valle.jc, Martinez, Berkeley, Agnetf, San 
Jose, Falo Alto, Menlo Park, Sweeney Station, Half Moon Bay, Millbrae, 
South San Francisco, and at a point about 2 miles south of Colma. In 
1925 i£ was known only at Berkeley, San Jose, and Palo Alto, All of the 
other infestations have beer adied drring the past year. 
Most of the above infestations are very light and each covers a 
very limited area. Commercial damage has resulted in only four places, 
namely, at San Jose, Palo Alto, Martinez, and A^new, The most severe 
infestation, which covered a single 13-acre truck farm in 1926, has 
spread to about four times that area in the course of one year. Some of 
the infestations, as the one at Palo Alto, were much lighter in 1927 
than 1926, probably owing to the fact that but a single crop of tomatoes 
was grown during the year. Sufficient adults -"ere not produced, o 1,T ing 
to lack of food plants for larval development, to cause economic loss 
as was the case at this point in 1926, It is believed that infestations 
will not be heavy except in truck-crop areas where host plants are grown 
continuously throughout the year. 
The weevil is known to occur in 32 counties in Mississippi, 7 in 
Alabama, 8 in Louisiana, and 2 in Florida, It has been more abundant 
the past year than oefore in ?outhe?"n Mississippi, and the indications 
are that it is moving north quite rapidly. 'Then it was first found in 
southern Mississippi it was only in small inf:estntions, and up to the 
present season it has been difficult to find during the summer months. 
However, during 1927 it has been found in the fields e^ery month of the 
year to date, and in larger numbers than ever before. The weevil con- 
tinued to be inactive during the summer months, but it was very active 
the other nine montns of the year," (M. M, High and H» 6, Lewis, Bureau 
of Entomology, U, S, D, A,) 
SUGA3BEET LSAFHOFPEH. 
"'The only damage occurring in the Idaho area this year was due 
to a movement of summer- brood Eutettix tenellus which occurred about the 
15th of June, She only places where seriously large populations existed 
were on the outskirts of the irrigated tract close to the bad breeding 
grounds. It so happedelthat these isolated fields were also late- 
planted or in poor cultural condition?:' for the most part. Where the 
cultural conditions were excellent, however, and the beets were planted 
