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has just completed the annual examination made for the purpose 
of determining the survival of "boll weevils in Spanish moss. 
The exam inc. t ions this year have "been more extensive than has "been 
the. case in the past, including not only the usual points around 
the laboratory at Tallulah, La. , but also representative points 
in extreme southern Louisiana and in South Carolina and Georgia. 
The records which follow indicate that as far as the initial 
emergence of the weevil is concerned the southeastern States may 
expect at least a normal number ,' sufficient, in fact, tc te a 
serious control problem from the very "beginning of the season 
in those fields nearest to hibernation shelter From Alabama 
westward, however, it is evident that a lighter infestation will 
prevail on the average with the possible exception of the extreme 
Gulf Ccast regions, hut it is also evident that this infestation 
is going to "be very abnormally "spotted" . A peculiar combination 
of conditions last summer and fall produced exceedingly variable 
crops of weevils to go into hibernation and it will probably 
be found that regions of heavy infestation will be separated by 
f^nly a few miles from regions of very light infestation. Minimum 
temperatures for the winter have been fairly high, certainly not 
below normal, and, as a consequence, survival among those weevils 
actually in hibernation has evidently been fairly high and 
emergence is, going to be largely determined by the local abundance 
of wee€.ls entering int© hibernation in the fall. 
In northern Louisiana a total of 3,258 pounds of moss at sixteen 
points in Madison, Tensas 3 and Richland Parishes was examined j in 
southern Louisiana 782 pounds were collected in Lafayette and St. 
Landry Parishes; in the Southeastern States, 2/478 pounds repre- 
sented forty-nine points in Florence^, Allendale and Dorchester 
Counties, South Carolina, and Decatur and Lowndes Ceunties, Georgia. 
The following tabulation showes the outline of results of these 
examinations since the records were started in 1915: 
Year 
".siana 
1915 
Hoi 
•thern Loui 
1916 
it 
1917 
it 
191 8 
tt 
19x9 
11 
1920 
11 
1921 
11 
1922 
11 
1923 
11 
1924 
11 
1925 
11 
Live weevils 
per 
ton of 
Mass 
10.0 
24,0 
3.0 
1.7 
4.0 
9.5 
22. C 
127.0 
19.0 
o„5 
0.6 
Table shewing results at new points of examination: 
1925 Southern Louisiana 31.O 
1925 Georgia and South Carolina 31.0 
North^ H. W c Leiby (March 20): Two boll weevils appeared in our wire- 
Carolina screened hibernation cages on March 12 at Aberdeen. These are 
