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Strawberry weevil emerzence delayed in South.--W. 4. Thomas, of 
the Chedbourn, N. C., laboratory resorts as follows: "The unusually 
cold and prolonged winter in the Chadbourn, N. 0., area caused much 
of the native vegetation to be greatly delayed in blooming. This 
was especially true of the native host plants of the strawberry 
weevil (anthonoms sipnatus Say). Huckleberry, the earliest of. the 
native hust »lants, usually bevins shuwing open flowers the latter. 
part of February. or. the first of March. Ordinarily, within a week 
or 10 days the weevils are feeding on these »lants. During the 
present season no blooming of huckleberry tevk place until March 20, 
and then only one or two flowers per plant could be found. Careful 
observation showed that on these few open flowers the strawberry 
weevils were beginning to concentrate. The evidence seems to indi- 
cate that the weevils began emerzing from hibernation e few days 
prior to the opening of the first fiowers on huckleberry, but were 
not attracted tu these plants until oven flowers apceared. The in- 
festation of huckleberry flowers, uncer ordinary spring conditions, 
takes plece rather slowly, unlike the present ra,;id concentration on 
these plants. The second earliest host plant in the Chadbourn area, 
chokeberry, begins blooming Wiarch 27, et which time the weevils were 
just entering the strawberry fielis. There is no evidence to show 
that the low tempersture of the sast winter affected hibernating 
weevils adversely." 
important economic loss caused by lima bean vod borer.--During 
a survey of 

varehouses receiving lima beans in the counties of San 
Diego, Orange, and Ventura, Calif., Rodney Cecil, of the Ventura 
laboratory, reports an estimated loss of ©90,000 as a result of in- 
jury by the lima bean od borer (Etiella zinckenella Treit.), plus 
the cost of removing damaged beans from the marketed product. A 
total of 261,000 hundred- pound sacks of lima beans were involved in 
this survey. The average percentage of beans damazed ly the borer 
ranged from JU.5 to 3.5 in the 16 warehouses examined. 
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Phlox bug overwinters in eg: staze.--H. H. Richardson, of the 
greenhouse insects laboratory, iashington, D. C., reports that 
recent studies at arlington Farm, Va., have revealed that the phlox 
bug (Lo pidea davisi Knight) overwinters in the staze, as sus— 
pected by previous investigators of the bivlog; this insect. 
The eggs were found inserted in the lateral buds of the old phlox 
stalk, and during the past winter such egys survived exposure to a 
mininum temperature of -6.5° F. It is ap arent thet clean-up measures 
of old phlox stalks in the autumn or winter should prove effective in 
controlling the insect, especiaily when the stalks are cut at the 
ground level. 
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