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Excerpt from Forest Insect Conditions in the Southeast During 1957 Forest insect conditions continued to improve generally in the South east during 1957 (fig. 1) despite the fact that Ips beetles killed an estimated 10 million board-feet during one epidemic period and southern pine beetles destroyed over trees in the Southern Appalachian Mountains. Extremely cold weather in December killed a high percentage of southern pine beetle broods. The black turpentine beetle remained in outbreak status on the Hoffman Forest in eastern North Carolina. In Florida the beetle was much less active than in 1956. The elm spanworm (snow-white linden moth) was the only defoliator in outbreak status, although local infestations of sawflies, especially in Florida, were causing some concern. During 1957 a cooperative insect survey plan for Florida was developed and two semi-annual aerial surveys conducted. These surveys were under the direction of the Florida Forest Service, with the State Plant Board and U. S. Forest Service cooperating. During these surveys over ten million acres of forest land in northern Florida were covered by2.5-percent intensity. The summary of insect conditions presented in this report includes only those infestations which caused, or were capable of causing, serious economic losses. A few minor insects of special interest are also noted. This report is made up to a considerable extent from information submitted directly to this office by cooperators and from reports and information submitted by pest control foresters, especially from Virginia and North Carolina. The summary of formal cooperative reports is presented in table 1. While the number of reports received by this Station in 1957 is less than those submitted in 1956 insect conditions during the year were under much greater scrutiny. In Virginia, field reports from each district are summa rized monthly by the insect and disease specialist in the Division of Forestry. Copies of these reports are submitted to this office. In addition, the associate extension entomologist puts out a monthly economic insect report containing a section devoted to forest insects. A somewhat similar but less formal system exists in North Carolina, and this office is kept informed of all serious infesta tions by frequent written and verbal communication. The State of Florida israpidly developing an extensive reporting system and this year has developed an intensive aerial sampling survey for the detection of insect infestations and for an appraisal of insect losses. 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.