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The tobacco flea "beetle, which has "been reported as very destruc- 
tive in the tobacco-growing section of Kentucky and Tennessee during the 
last few years, was not reported from that section in 193 6 • It was re- 
ported, however, from North Carolina. Other flea "beetles were reported 
in at least normal abundance from most parts of the Eastern States. 
Soil samples taken from fields in New Jersey, where sweet corn 
was heavily infested "by the corn ear worm in 1935* were examined in Octo- 
ber 1935 an< i found to contain living pupae. Similar soil samples were 
examined in April 193^, and no living pupae were found. A few reports 
of high winter mortality of this insect were received from other States. 
This fact, with almost no reports' of injury "by the larvae early in the 
summer, indicates low winter survival. Reports late in the summer and 
fall indicate that the insect had "built up destructive populations. 
The hjssian fly suffered high winter mortality, which, coupled 
with unfavorable weather in the Spring of 193&. chucked the impending 
outbreak. 
The harlequin bug, a southern species, advances northward in 
years of mild weather. The last few years have been favorable and, 
beginning about 1932, reports indicate its occurrence in destructive 
abundance north to a line from Central Ohio westward to southern Iowa. 
During the season of 1936, it was not reported north of 35° north 
latitude, except at Norfolk, Va. ; the southern tip of Ohio, in Law- 
rence County; and in east-central Kansas, in Douglas County. 
Extremes in the weather caused fluctuations in codling moth 
populations. The cold winter killed many of the overwintering 
larvae in the east- rn part of the country, but warm weather in May 
stimulated activity, affording the species an early start, and it 
staged a very rapid comeback in most central and eastern localities, 
although reduced during the summer by the dry hot weather in a few 
west-central States. 
