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most northerly infestation on the east coast was at Lake Worth in Falm Beach 
County, and on the rest coast on Terra Ceia Island in Manatee County. The 
eradication of the wild cotton was immediately begun, and has "been in progress 
now for 3 years. During the course of the eradication, inspections are made 
from time to time, and so far this season no infestations have been found. 
Most of the plants now "being removed'are seedlings and sprouts, and they con- 
tain very little or no fruit. As no systenatic inspections have been made of 
this wild cotton, it is impossible to give any accurate idea of the condition 
of infestation at this time. In Georgia specimens were fo.und in the "1933 crop 
in Berrien and Tift Counties, hut hone were found in- the 1934 crop. (R. E. 
McDonald, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, U. S. D. A. ) 
VEG2TA3LE WEEVIL :'. 
The vegetable weevil was reported as damaging truck crops -in Alabama and 
Mississippi during January. As the season advanced, it became evident that 
the insect was not so injuriously abundant as usual. The most significant 
development occurred in California, the insect being discovered for the first 
time in the Sacramento Valley. in Sacramento County, and in southern California 
in Los Angeles and Orange Counties. It was reported on avocado and citrus in 
Orange County. During the fall of 1934 the weevil did not start feeding 
heavily along the Gulf coast until the latter half of October. Ovi^osition 
started during the last 10 days of October,- • ;.--■ 
I:i 1933 the weevil was found for the., first- time in Tennessee, in Hardin 
County. t ■ .. . _ 
MEXICAN BEAN BEETLE 
Reports on the Mexican bean beetle from Ohio indicate that in that State 
the low temperatures late in January produced e, high mortality of the hiber- 
nating beetles. Similar high mortality was reported eastward to northern 
Delaware. However, as the season advanced, it became evident that enough of 
the beetles had successfully passed the winter to occasion considerable damage 
throughout most of the known infested range. Damage was considerably less 
than early in the season last year. By fall heavy infestations had reestab- 
lished themselves over most of the infested territory. The beetle has spread 
northeastward in Maine to Sagadahoc, Lincoln, Knox, and Waldo Counties, the 
southeastern part of Penobscot, and the southern part of Somerset. It was 
reported for the first time from Orange and .Windsor Counties, Vt. It ex- 
tended its range in Mississippi southward to Stone County. and westward to 
Webster County. 
PEA APHID 
In February and the early part of March the pea aphid -built up a consider- 
able population in early seeded vetch and pea fields in Oregon and California. 
In April it was reported as damaging alfalfa in Indiana and from southern Iowa 
and Nebraska southward through Missouri to Mississippi aoid westward through 
the Great Basin to the Pacific Northwest. By the end of March vetch and 
Austrian field peas were being destroyed in the Willamette Valley, Oreg.,and 
