Insects Injurious to the Apple. 



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physiological changes take place in the attacked shoots and leaves 

 have never been investigated. Why the leaves should, as is fre- 

 quently noticed, hang on the trees instead of falling normally, has 

 not been explained. This is a very marked character in trees that 

 have been infested with ApJris pomi, De Geer. 



(F. Edenden. 



FIG. 103. APPLE SHOOT DESTROYED BY Afhis pomi. 



With a few exceptions the chief aphides on apple trees have 

 been seen to belong to three species, Aphis pomi, De Geer,* Aphis 



* This has usually been known as Apliis mali, Fabricius 1775, but De Geer 

 had previously described it as Aphis vomi in 1773. 



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