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elm caused the first damage to pear trees recorded of it. The life- 

 cycle occupies 3 years from the time the egg is laid, the adults usually 

 appearing in June and July. Trees in infested orchards should be 

 watched closely from March to July and the young larvae cut out 

 with a knife, if possible before they penetrate into the heart wood, 

 A Cerambycid, closely related to Pty diodes trilineatus (three-lined 

 fig-tree borer) was bred from a larva damaging a fig-tree. Unripe 

 apricots were found to be seriously scarred by a species of thrips, 

 Franhliniella morrilli, Morg., the injury being done by the nymphs 

 which remained in groups on the surface of the fruit and were most 

 numerous early in April. Good results were obtained by spraying 

 with a nicotine sulphate soap solution under a pressure of at least 

 150 lb. The Nitidulid beetle, Conotelus mexicanus, Murr., was found 

 in large numbers on cucumber and cotton blossoms, and fruit buds 

 may require to be protected from them by the use of repellent 

 sprays. 



The adults of a Scarabaeid beetle, Chnaunanthus discolor, Burm., 

 were found in April damaging the blossoms in young citrus orchards, 

 but this insect is not expected to become an important citrus pest. 

 A termite, Amitermes tubifornians, Buckley, was found doing consider- 

 able damage to a citrus orchard, but was successfully controlled by 

 scooping out a basin round the base of each tree and pouring into 

 it I pint of Black-leaf 40 diluted at the rate of 1 part to 500 parts 

 water, and at the same time destroying the galleries formed by the 

 termites. Other normal citrus injury resulted from the attacks of 

 Scirtothrips citri, Moulton (citrus thrips). Cicada cinctifera, Uhler 

 (citrus cicada), and Melanoplus differentialis, Thos. (differential grass- 

 hopper). The indigenous scale- insect, Diaspis celtidis, Ckll, a general 

 pest of ash trees was found on olive to a slight extent, and since the 

 lightest infestation results in considerable financial loss, ash trees 

 should not be planted near commercial olive orchards. 



Field and forage crops were attacked by a grasshopper, Melanoplus 

 differentialis, which in one district attacked several hundred acres 

 of lucerne, spreading thence to orchards and cotton fields. Another 

 species, Conozoa behrensi, Sans., damaged young barley planted in 

 Bermuda-grass sod-land. Feltia annexa, Tr. (granulated cutworm) 

 was exceedingly destructive to lucerne, but was checked by the use of 

 poison bran mash. Aphis maidis, Fitch (corn-leaf aphis) was exception- 

 ally destructive, spring-sown barley being practically all destroyed 

 by it and by Siphonaphis padi, L. {A. avenae, F.) (oat aphis). Colias 

 (Eurytmts) eurytheme, Boisd. (alfalfa butterfly) was unusually abundant. 

 Severe local damage to field crops was done by Diatraea zeacolella, 

 Dyar (larger corn stalk borer), and Elasmopalpus lignosellus, Zell, 

 (lesser corn stalk borer), injuring maize and bean plants. Tetranychus 

 telarius, L. {bimaculatus, Harv.) (two-spotted red spider) caused note- 

 worthy damage to lucerne, the immediate cutting of which and spraying 

 with atomic sulphur or potassium sulphide was advised. Injury 

 from Heliothis (Chloridea) obsoleta, F. (corn ear worm), Brvchophagus 

 funebris, How. (alfalfa seed Chalcid) and Stictoeephala festina, Say 

 (three-cornered alfalfa hopper) was normal. 



Cutworms were particularly abundant and destructive to vegetable 

 crops, and the use of a dry poison-bait is recommended made up of 

 20 to 30 lb. dry bran, middlings, or a half and half combination of 



