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The army cutworm is reported as "bein^ very abundant in south central 
Kansas, nor thwestern Oklahoma, western Nehraska, northern Colorado and 
Wyoming, How serious this outbreak will he has not yet "been intimated. 
Reports from Ohio, Illinois, Missouri, and Idaho indicate that unusually 
low temperatures during the winter produced a very high mottality of the 
San Jose scale. 
The citrus aphid ( Aphis spiraecola Patch) has appeared in threatening 
numbers in the Orlando section of Florida, considerably north of the region 
heavily infested last year. 
The Australian tomato weevil is proving a very serious pest to turnips 
in southern Mississippi this spring. 
The celery leaf-tyer is developing to such an extent in the early 
truck section about Sanford, Fla. , that it may cause considerable damage unless 
active control measures are undertaken. 
The boll weevil situation in Louisiana, as far as hibernation is 
cencerned, is generally favorable. The number of weevils per ton of moss is 
about the same as last year.. 
A recent survey covering the lumber sections from Alabama to Texas 
indicated that approximately 70,000,000 feet of pine timber was dead or dying. 
Although drought seems to have been the primary cause of this loss, bark-beelles 
of several species are present in such great numbers as to be an important 
factor, 
Dr, ff, B, Britton and Mr, B, I, Shannon submitted independent 
notes on the collecting of the recently introduced fly Muscina pascuorum Meig, 
in Connecticut, Maryland, and Virginia, 
