WINTER NUMBER 57 
THE CITRUS APHID IN CUBA 
The following letter from Mr. J. B. Anderson of Santa Clara 
in regard to the status of the new citrus aphid in Cuba should 
be of interest to our readers: 
“Here in this province (Santa Clara) I have been pretty well 
over the groves, and find it universal; just this morning I was 
out to see some little recreation farms, owned by friends here 
in town. One place has about 20 trees, and the other, at a dis- 
tance 10 miles removed from the first, has about 100 trees. 
Both are badly infested, although there is not active work go- 
ing on now as there is no new growth. 
“In this province, near the town of Manacas, near the Man- 
tanzas province line, there are six German-American orange 
growers, with a total of about 100 acres of orange groves scat- 
tered over a dozen square miles, and all the groves have the 
aphis, being dormant at present, but having been worked pretty 
thoroly as shown by the hardened curled leaves. 
“When I was in Camaguey a month ago, a Cuban grower 
with about 50 acres told me that all his trees were infected and 
also that all the other groves around were in the same shape; 
these are within 5 miles of Camaguey city. 
“The La Gloria district, where my groves are, was gone over 
very thoroly by me just before I wrote you the first of the year; 
practically every grove is infected and much damage done. 
“Thus I know personally that it has taken full charge of our 
groves in these central provinces. 
“As to how long it has been a pest, I can say that I have 
noticed the characteristic tight curling of the leaves for the 
past three years, and they tell me in La Gloria that it has been 
there for four years, but never abundant enough to excite com- 
ment even. We just supposed thet it was curling by dry weath- 
er or something like that. Just this year it shot out like wild- 
fire all at once in all groves.” 
Mr. A. C. Mason, of the Bureau of Entomology, U. 8S. Dept. 
of Agric., who has been stationed at Lindsey, Calif., where he 
has been studying the California orange thrips, has been trans- 
ferred to Hawaii, where he has taken up the study of the Medi- 
terranean fruitfly. 
