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the season advanced this insect appeared to "be somewhat more abundant than 
usual in the Mississippi Valley from Kentucky to Mississippi. Owing to the 
material curtailment of spraying over much of the eastern fruit belt the 
curculio went into winter quarters in 1932 over much more of its range in 
greater numbers than it did in 1931. 
SAN JOSS SCALE 
The large populations of the San Jose scale ( Aspidiotus nerniciosus 
Comst.) that built up during 1931 apparently passed the winter of 1931-52 with 
very low mortality. The freeze of March which occurred as far south as 
Georgia gave the scale a decided setback. In Illinois mortality ran as high 
as 25 per cent, which, however, v/as apparently offset by favorable conditions 
and general reduction in spraying activities. In the spring the insect was 
quite generally reported as increasingly abundant from New York to Georgia 
and westward to Illinois, Michigan, and Missouri, and southward to Mississippi 
and Tennessee. Increasing populations were also reported from Colorado and 
Oregon, and very heavy infestations were reported from western New York, 
Michigan, southern Illinois, southern Missouri, southern Mississippi, eastern 
Texas, and Oregon. 
FRUIT APHIBS 
Early spring observations iniicated that eggs of fruit aphids were quite 
generally scarce throughout New England, increasing in abundance southward 
and westward. As the season advanced these insects were quite generally sub- 
normally abundant throughout the country. 
MEXICAN BEAN BEETLE 
Adults of the Mexican bean beetle ( Epilachna cor rapt a Muls.) passed the 
winter exceptionally well in the northernmost part of the territory now known 
to be infested, and adults were emerging from hibernating quarters during the 
third week in April in Delaware. By the middle of May they were appearing in 
numbers in bean fields in the Middle Atlantic States. They increased rapidly 
in numbers during June and were doing considerable damage over the greater 
part of their range by the end of that month. During the year the insect was 
observed for the first time in eastern Illinois, central New Hampshire, south- 
western Maine, and two counties farther north in Vermont. 
VEGETABLE WEEVIL 1 
The vegetable weevil ( Listroderes obliquus Gyll.) has been found in new 
localities in the Northwest and Northeast. During the year it was records**" 
e£i as infesting the entire northwestern quarter of Louisiana, so this State 
is now entirely infested. It was found for the first time this year in the 
State of Arkansas, in the two southeasternmost counties. This weevil has also 
been found for the first time in Georgia this year, reports of its occurrence 
having been received from three counties alrng the western "border of the State 
and from one county in northcentral Georgia. In Texas it was recorded from 
one additional county immediately west of the territory known to be infested. 
1 M. M. High, Bureau of Entomology, U.S.D.A. 
