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The chinch bug maintained a population in the East Central States 
of such proportions that the number of bugs going into hibernation is 
distinctly alarming. This insect has also been reported from eo.st-cen- 
tral Pennsylvania. ., - 
The fall armyworm war. reported during the last few days in Septem- 
ber from the lower Gulf region in Louisiana, where it was damaging soy- 
beans and sugarcane. This insect was also, reported as a. pest to .flowers 
growing under glass in Michigan. 
At harvest time side-sting injury by the codling moth was observed 
to be unusually prevalent throughout Hew Sag land and the Middle Atlantic 
States. Similar injury extended across the la2<e region into Minnesota 
and Iowa. 
Apple leafhoppers were so prevalent at harvest time in the orchards 
of Hew England, the Middle Atlantic States southward to Virginia, and 
the East Central States westward to Illinois and Kentucky, that these in- 
sects, in addition to specking the fruit, were a very decided nuisance to 
the pickers. " 
The citrus whitefly was reported as quite generally abundant from 
Georgia and Florida to Mississippi. 
Along the Atlantic seaboard, from Virginia southward to South Caro- 
lina and Alabama, the cabbage webworm has been doing very appreciable 
damage to cruciferous crops. This insect is also occurring in damaging 
numbers on cauliflower in southern California. 
The pickle worm, during late fall, appeared in the Middle Atlantic 
and Hew England States in greater numbers than it has in many years. 
The first record of this insect as a pest in Connecticut was made this year, 
The insect was so numerous that practically no squash was harvested in 
the Charleston section of South Carolina, and many fields of late cucum- 
bers were completely ruined in north-central Florida. 
The cabbage looper is reported as damaging spinach in Ohio and Penn- 
sylvania. 
The birch skeleton! zer is heavily defoliating birch in Maine, Hew 
Hampshire, and northeastern Hew York. This insect has also been re- 
ported from Wisconsin and Minnesota. The birch leaf-mining sawfly is 
also seriously infesting birch from Maine to northern .Hew York. 
