JOURNAL 



OF 



ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY 



OFFICIAL ORGAN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGISTS 



Vol. 12 APRIL, 1919 No. 2 



Proceedings of the Thirty-first Annual Meeting of the 

 American Association of Economic Entomologists 



{Continued from p. 123) 



Afternoon Session, Friday, December 27, 1918, 2J+0 p. m. 



Vice-President E. C. Cotton: The next paper on the program is 

 entitled, "Important Insect Pests Collected on Imported Nursery 

 Stock, 1918," by Mr. E. R. Sasscer. 



IMPORTANT FOREIGN INSECT PESTS COLLECTED ON IM- 

 PORTED NURSERY STOCK IN 1918 



By E. R. Sasscer 



The amount of nursery stock offered for entry into the United States 

 (luring the fiscal year 1918 showed a marked decrease as compared 

 with former years. Especially is this true of the five principal export- 

 ing European countries,^ which showed a falling off of some 22,953,147 

 plants. The number of plants exported by these European countries 

 for the fiscal year 1918 was as follows: 



England 1,865,5:39 



France 16,767,673 



Holland 2.016.S84 



Hi'lf^iuin and Germany 



In other words, France alone exported more stock to the United 

 States in 1913 than all these countries in the fiscal year 1918. A sum- 

 mary of the plant imports for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1918, is 



1 The amount of stock exported by these countries from 191:} to 1917, inclusive, is 

 f^iven in previous lists of important foreign insect pests, etc., published in the Joirnal 



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