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Wyoming. The moths were so numerous as to occasion the closing of stores 
in some towns and materially inconvenienced motorists by their enormous 
numbers. By the end of the month new pi .ri tings of alfalfa, were being 
damaged and eggs were very numerous in the field. 
The_alfalfa weevil has been found well established in .the San Joaquin 
Valley of California. 
Estimates of. damage as high as 20 per 7 cent by the sugarcane beetle to 
rice and sugarcane have been reported from Louisiana. 
: • In r southern Illinois first 'emergence' of the codling moth in cages was 
on April 22 with a 'heavy emergence -on May 3. The peak of emergence occurred 
in central Illinois by the .20th up to -which date no emergence had been re- 
corded in the northern part of •' the State. ' The first adults were observed 
in Delaware Hay 4, in southern Pennsylvania May > 11, and in central Penn- 
sylvania May 19, in Ohio May 5, in central Missouri May 4, and in northern 
Missouri May 9. In the Pacific Northwest the first emergence was recorded 
on May 6 in Washington State .and 'on May 8 in southern Idaho. 
• The -eastern tent caterpillar is quite generally abundant along the 
Atlantic - seaboard' southward' to Maryland. 
The aphid situation in the eastern fruit belt from Mew York to Virginia 
is not unusual. ' '-.However, at Port Valley, Ga. , ' the apple aphid is appearing 
in large numbers. 
The oriental' fruit moth started emerging' in Delaware 'April 5 and during 
the last week in the month was emerging in large numbers. In Georgia larvae 
appeared in twigs by the middle of May. This is the latest appearance of 
first-brood larvae since the insect became established in that State. In 
the East Central States it seems to be increasing in numbers, and is for the 
first time generally distributed over northwestern Arkansas. 
The plum curculio is reported as a week later than last year in the 
north- central section of Georgia. Full-grown larvae were leaving the drops 
by the middle of the month. The insect' is apparently but moderately abun- 
dant over the East" Central States and somewhat more abundant than usual in 
Kentucky, Missouri, Arkansas, and Mississippi. 
: During the month the vegetable weevil was discovered in Atlanta, Ga. , 
the easternmost record for the : distribution of this insect. It was also re- 
ported from 8 additional counties in Mississippi, which State is now entirely 
infested except the northernmost tier of counties. 
'The seed corn maggot was .reported as doing, some damage along the 
Atlantic seaboard from South Carolina to Maryland. 
Onion thrips were causing very severe injury to a large variety of 
truck crops in the important commercial trucking sections of eastern South 
Carolina. 
