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VEGETABLE WEEVIL 
The vegetable weevil ( Listroderes obiiquu s Gyil.) has continued to 
spread. It has been found during the year in 28 new counties in four 
States, as follows : Mississippi 10, Alabama 12, Louisiana 5, and 
Florida 1. This brings the total known distribution in these four 
States to 85 counties; Mississippi 50, Alabama 19, Louisiana 13, and 
Florida 3. The infestation on the east includes Coffee County in 
Alabama; on the north, Monroe County in Mississippi and Fayette County 
in Alabama; and on the west, ffest Baton Rouge and ,/est Feliciana Parishes 
in Louisiana. In some sections the weevil has been less plentiful than i 
last year, while in others it has been more numerous and the injury to ' 
crops more serious. Its favored food plants continue to be turnip, . 
carrot, cabbage, spinach, and related crops. 
SUGARCANE BORER 
Reports from Louisiana late in February indicated that the numbers 
of the sugarcane borer ( Diatraea saccharalis Fab.) then in hibernation 
were unusually small. By the end of August the third generation was 
developing in the cane but not in very large numbers. The egg-parasite 
Tricho^ramma minutum Riley was destroying about 50 per cent of the eggs 
at that time, and by the end of September it was destroying practically 
95 per cent of the eggs in many localities. A superficial survey of the 
Gulf Coast section of Mississippi failed to locate the borer in the 
widely separated plantings in that State, 
PERIODICAL CICADA 
Brood III of the periodical cicada (Tibicina septendecim L. ) ap- 
peared this year in the following places: 
Iowa. 
Adair, Appanoose, Boone, Clarke, Dallas, Davis, Decatur, Des 
Moines, Guthrie, Hamilton, Kenrjs Iowa, Jasper, Jefferson, Lee, 
Louisa, Lucas, Madison, Mahaska, Marion, Monroe, Poweshiek, 
Ringgold, Story, Tama, Union, Van Buren, V.'apello, and '.Vayne 
Counties. 
Illinois. 
Adams, Brown, Cess, Fulton, Hancock, Henderson, Knox, Macon, . 
Mason, McDonough, Menard, Montgomery, Morgan, Pile, Schuyler, ' 
Scott, Tazewell, and barren Counties. 
Missouri. 
Boone, Cedar, Clark, Harrison, Holt, Mercer, Pike, Putnam, and 
Randolph Counties. 
Ohio 
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