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New Haven. This slide, made in 1917, contains the same species. 

 It has therefore been present in the State for three years and possibly- 

 longer. 



Means of Dispersal 



Apples exam.ined in the field frequently showed an abundance of 

 small red eggs placed well within the calyx cavity. Probably they are 

 thus carried from place to place on the fruit, and imder favorable cir- 

 cumstances may hatch and regain a host. There is also considerable 

 local distribution by wind?. 



Possibilities of Control 



Our limited experience in controlling this mite under Connecticut 

 conditions indicates that possibly the commercial lime sulphur (1-9^) 

 applied as a late dorm.ant spray may prove effective. Certainly none 

 of the summer treatments applied July 28, in one orchard where fcur 

 different com.binations were used, gave results that would warrant 

 such treatment by the grower. In this laboratory, laundry soap, 4 

 lbs. in 50 gals, of water, killed nearly all of the mites with which it came 

 in contact; but before we understand how to control this pest much 

 more work must be done, especially in the line of field tests and ob- 

 servations under local conditions. 



Blister Beetle Injury to Peaches. Blister beetles, identified as Pomphopoea aenea 

 Sa}', caused considerable injury in a peach orchard at Marshallville, Georgia on March 

 10th. The trees were in full bloom on that date and the beetles attacked the blossoms, 

 eating through the calyx and then devouring the pistil. Very often che young foli- 

 age jus., putting out was eaten. An army of these beetles had destroyed all blos- 

 soms on about fifty trees in a 4000-tree orchard before they were observed. Hand 

 picking was advised immediately and with the assistance of an application of arsen- 

 ate of lead, and early morning jarring the outbreak was checked within twelve hours. 



Oliver I. Sn.\pp, Entomologist, 



U. S. Entomological Laboratory, 

 Fort Valley, Georgia 



^Since writing the above it has been found that miscible oils like scalecide are 

 very effective ovicides. 



