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STRAWBERRY ROOT APHID Ucis forte si Weed. ) 
Mississippi R, '7. Harried (March 30) : .attacking strawberry at Picayune and 
Cleveland. Determination made by ft.. L. Eamner. 
STRAWBERRY WEEVIL ( Anthoncmus signatus Say) 
North ". A. Thomas (March 21): This insect is unusually abundant at 
Carolina Chadbourn this season and is doing serious damage to fields of 
berries where no control measures have been employed. The 
weevils began entering the fields on March 7 and fed heavily on 
developing buds before beginning egg deposition on March Ij. 
They are now generally distributed on most farms on the " -sec 
tion. Twentyone active weevils were collected on a single 
plant early last week. 
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Mississippi R. U. Earned (March 30) : On March 2k County Agent Jas. H. Price 
Pascagoula, wrote as follows : {, These pill-hugs or sowbugs are 
literally eating vp our strawberries. One lady told me this 
morning that she had been able to get but one strawberry for 
over a week. I have a few myself and it is very hard to get a 
berry without a hole eaten in it and most of them are from one- 
half to three-fourths eaten. " 
SLUGS (Species undetermined) 
Mississippi R. 71. Earned (March 30): Slugs were reported as causing damage 
to strawberries in Fike County, on March ik. 
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FLORIDA FLOWER THRIF3 ( Frankliniella tritici bispiuosa Morgan) 
Florida J. P.. Watson (March 19) : The flower thrips, Frankliniella 
tr itici bisioinosa . has been severely damaging beans 'in the 
Okeechobee district. 
SOUTHERN * IELD-CR OP I If S B C T S 
COT TOM 
BOLL WEEVIL ( ,-uithonomus .standi s Fob. ) 
Florida E. F. Grossman through 3. .MBerger- ("'\rch 19): Thcvgh '.. number of 
weevils probably haa alreaay emerged iro.n their natural hiberna- 
tion Quarters, the first weevil "as trapped in the open field 
rch ik. 10 date 3.88 per cent of the 2o,3-!7 weevils placed 
in hibernation cages at Gainesville last fall have emerged since 
uary 2S, when the first weevils to emerge were removed from 
the cages. 
