INSECT PEST SURVEY BULLETIN 
Vol. 15 April 1, 1935 No, 2 
THE MOKE IMPORTANT RECORDS FOR MARCH 1^35 
Reports of the usual damage by cutworms were received during the last 
2 weeks of Marsh from Kansas, Missouri, and Tennessee, southward to the Gulf 
and the Mexican border. 
V/hite grub beetles started heavy flights in the Gulf States during 
the third week of the month. 
H^a^y infestations of several species of wireworms were reported from 
the Pacific Coast States 
The chinch bug came through the winter successfully throughout the 
chinch bug belt. 
Heavy infestations of the green bug were reported from South Carolina 
during the first half of the month. 
Eastern tent caterpillars are hatching from Kansas to Tennessee, The 
insect will probably be unusually abundant throughout the Eastern States thig 
year, as large numbers of eggs have been reported over this area. 
The San Jose scale is reported as generally prevalent from New York 
westward to Wisconsin and southward to the Gulf. This insect appears to be 
on an upward trend. 
Flat-headed apple tree borers were doing unusual damage from Ohio to 
Nebraska. 
Adult plum curculios were generally distributed over the peach orchards 
of the Fort Valley section of Georgia by the third week of the month, with a 
heavier infestation than usual. 
A rapid increase in abundance of the citrus aphid in Florida was re- 
ported during the last week of March. 
Tomato pinworms are reported in large number; in tomato fields in the 
Santa Ana and San Juan Capistrano districts of California. 
The pea aphid was seriously damaging market peas in Santa Barbara and 
San Luis Obiepo Counties, California. 
Very s-evere damage by the onion thrips to celery was reported from 
