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Excerpt from Cooperative Economic Insect Report, Vol. 23: March 9, 1973
Palm Beach County, and into Martin County. In the east coast area this weevil was found inland west of Loxahatchee, Palm Beach County. Fruit drop of bell peppers was serious On some farms. The rapid spread Of this pest in the east coast area was probably due to the practice of dumping waste fruit from packing areas, as well as the unusually warm winter which was conducive to rapid repro duction. Heavy populations (1 - 3 per fruit) built up during spring at Immokalee, Collier County, and at Dover, Hillsborough County. These are the first reports of pepper weevil in Florida Since 1945. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
