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The variegated cutworm was exceedingly abundant in January 
in the State of Sinaloa, Mexico, where it is one of the serious 
pests attacking the commercial tomato and pepper plantations. 
The southern green plant -tug is again becomin; destructive 
in southern Alabama. This pest has net been troublesome since 
the freeze of 1918. 
The boll weevil passed the winter very sue cegu fully in 
Alabama, this spring's examinations snowing that lb per cent of 
the beetles were alive. This is about five times the normal 
average and indicates that with favorable* weather a serious 
boll -weevil year may be expectedin this region. 
About 40 per cent of the papaya fruit in the Fort Myers 
district of Florida was destroyed by the papaya fruit fly. 
Florists in Maryland, New York, and Massachusetts are 
reporting serious depredations by the chrysanthemua gall midge. 
The cyclamen mite is reported as very serious in 
greenhouses in the Baltimore and Philadelphia districts where 
it is attacking cyclamen and cnapdragon. 
The strawberry leaf -beetle as a rose pest in green- 
houses is attracting considerable attention this spring. Reports 
of serious injury havfc; been received from Massachusetts and 
Pennsylvania. 
