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FALSE CHINCH BUG ; 
The mild, dry weather along the Atlantic seaboard, from North Carolina to 
Georgia and around the Gulf "bo Mississippi, resulted in what appeared to "be an 
unprecedented outbreak' of the false chinch hug ( Nysius ericae Schill.). The 
insect very severely injured many winter truck crops, particularly mustard, 
turnip, carrot, cabbage, and lettuce. 
PICKLE WORM 
The pickle worm ( Diaphania ni tidal is Stoll) continued during 1932 to be 
seriously abundant somewhat north of its normal range, the mild winter 
apparently having favored the continuance of this insect in the north. Severe 
damage was reported from the eastern part of the Gulf region and up the 
Atlantic seaboard to North Carolina. No unusual conditions, however, were 
reported from Florida and the western Gulf section of Louisiana and Texas. 
Damage was also reported as unusually prevalent in Arkansas. 
CABS AGE INSECTS 
Several of the major lepidopterous pests of crucifers, including the 
imported cabbage worm (Ascia rapae L.), the cabbage looper (Aut n g rap ha 
brassj cae Riley), the cabbage webworm (Hellula undalis Fab.), the cbcage aphid 
( Brevi ^oryne brassicae L.), and the diamond-back moth ( Plutella naculipennis 
Curt.), continued to work throughout the winter in the winter truck-crop 
sections from Virginia southward to Georgia, and around the Gulf to Texas, 
resulting in very serious damage in many sections. 
TOMATO PIN WORM 
The tomato pin worm (Gnori moschema lycopersicella Busck) was reported for 
the first time last year east of the Rocky Mountains, occurring in numbers • 
that year in southern Pennsylvania. This year the insect was positively 
identified from Florida where it caused considerable trouble to tomato growing 
about Bradentown. In California this year it was very abundant over most of 
4,000 acres of tomatoes in Orange County. In many fields there was a loss of 
50 per cent of the crop, while in one field, the loss ran to 80 per cent. 
PEA APHID 
During March the pea aphid ( Illinoia pisi Kalt.) was reported as very 
numerous on Austrian, English, and garden peas from Alabama to Arizona. During 
May it occurred in outbreak cambers in the North Central States from Pennsyl- 
vania westward to Ohio, and southward to the Gulf, most of the infestations 
having been recorded from alfalfa. By June this insect was making decided 
inroads on the cannery pea crop in Ohio, Michigan, and Wisconsin, ani the late 
pea crop in the latter State was totally destroyel. 
BOLL WEEVIL 
The very mild winter of 1931-32 permitted the "boll weevil f Anthonomus 
grandis Boh.) to remain active throughout the usual hibernating period in many 
sections of the South, with the result that successful wintering of a very 
large population, in fact the greatest recorded in the past 17 years, resulted. 
The long-time average survival of this insect in hibernation cages is 
