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than in 1930 and 1931. At present weevils are about as abundant as 
they were a year ago. In some areas where leaf worms ( Alabama 
argil lacea Hbn.) have defoliated practically all of the cotton the 
number of weevils going into hibernation will be greatly reduced. 
On the other hand, in some areas the weevil population is building 
up rapidly this fall on cotton that is sprouting from the stalks 
plowed under during the summer in the cotton-acreage reduction 
campaign. This cotton is putting on squares in which weevils are 
developing in large numbers. 
PINK BOLL 
The pink boll worm ( Pectinophora gossyoiella Saund.) did not 
appear during 1933 in the counties in northern Florida in which the 
insect was found last season. One dead specimen was found, however, 
in gin trash in Madison County, Florida, on September 22, at some 
distance from the counties found infested the previous year. 
Progress is being made in the suppression of the outbreak on wild 
cotton on the keys and in the southern part of the State. Two 
fields were found infested in Berrien County, Georgia, in the late 
fall. In the Southwestern States the season was particularly 
notable from the continued failure to find any trace of the pink 
boll worm in the Salt River Valley of Arizona, and that valley 
was removed from the quarantined area, effective September 23. 
Several findings in the Staked Plains region of New Mexico and Texas, 
however, made it necessary to add Lea and Roosevelt Counties, New 
Mexico, all of Cochran, Hockley, Terry, and Yoakum Counties in Texas, 
and parts of Bailey, Lamb, and Dawson Counties in the same State, 
to the regulated areas. In some of these counties the insect was 
found in the fields, while in other cases it was discovered in gins 
in gin trash coming from cotton grown within the counties concerned. 
5 Bureau of Plant Quarantine, U. S. Department of Agriculture. 
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