Excerpt from Cooperative Economic Insect Report, Vol. 16: April 29, 1966
Further buildup of beet leafhopper populations indicated in most southwestern breeding grounds. Movement into cultivated districts of southeastern California, central Arizona, southern Nevada and southern Utah expected to be moderate to heavy; movement into eastern Utah and western Colorado also expected to be moderate to heavy. (p. Current potato psyllid counts more than doubled in El Paso area of Texas and increased ten-fold in Las Cruces area of New Mexico, compared with 1965. (p.
Armyworm very active in northwest Arkansas (p. Light trap catches higher in northwest Arkansas and at Stoneville, Mississippi, than at this time in 1965.
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