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IMPORTED CABBAGEWORM ( Pieris rapae ) - CALIFORNIA - Larvae damaged cabbage at 

 Crescent City, Oel Norte CounlyT TCa 1 . Coop. Rpt.). 



SALTMARSH CATERPILLAR ( Es tigmene acrea ) - ARIZONA - Larvae migrated into lettuce 

 period ending November 12. Foil barriers erected around fields. (Ariz. Coop. 

 Sur .) . 



SWEETPOTATO HORNWORM (Agrius cingulatus ) - MARYLAND - Single specimen taken at 

 Laurel, Prince Georges County, on October 19. Collected and determined by T.L. 

 Bissell. This is a new county record. (U . Md . , Ent. Dept.). 



A SCARAB (S trigoderma arboricola ) - NORTH CAROLINA - Larvae damaged sweetpotatoes 

 in isolated Johnston and Wilson County fields. Surface damage on all potatoes in 

 5-acre Wilson County field; potatoes reduced from grade 1 to cannery potatoes, 

 (Hunt) . 



GREEN PEACH APHID (Myzus persicae ) - MARYLAND - Ranged 1-4 per row yard in 400 

 acres of spinach near Vienna, Dorchester County. (U. Md., Ent. Dept.). 



DECIDUOUS FRUITS AND NUTS 



A TORTRICID MOTH (Acleris minuta ) - ALABAMA - Larvae heavy and damaging foliage 

 of young apple trees at nursery in Cullman County on September 16, 1971. 

 Collected by C.A. Kouskolekas. Determined by D..M. Weisman. This is a new State 

 record. (McQueen). 



CODLING MOTH (Laspeyresia pomonella ) - CALIFORNIA - Infesting apple fruit in 

 Castro Valley, Alameda County. This species and Paramyelois transitella (navel 

 orangeworm) heavy on walnuts at Visalia, Tulare County. CCal . Coop. Rpt.). 



HICKORY SHUCKWORM (Laspeyresia caryana ) - ALABAMA - Last generation of larvae in 



many pecan shucks on and under several hundred unsprayed ti-ees in Lee and Elmore 



Counties, Larvae 1 per 10 nuts in many trees. Numbers usually fewer on seedlings, 

 (Linder et al , ) , 



PECAN WEEVIL (C urculio caryae ) - ALABAMA - Larval damage heavy to nuts in several 

 pecan orchards~"in Dale County. (Estes) , TEXAS - Heavy damage to pecans in Haskell 

 County. (Boring). OKLAHOMA - Larvae infested 40 percent of untreated pecan nuts 

 in orchard in Rogers County. (Okla. Coop. Sur.), 



ITALIAN PEAR SCALE ( Epidiaspis leperii ) - CALIFORNIA - Adults heavy on walnut trees 

 in Gridley and general on walnuts in Biggs, Butte County. (Cal . Coop. Rpt.). 



CITRUS 



CITRUS RED MITE (Panonychus citri ) - ARIZONA - Up to 5 per citrus leaf at Yuma, 

 Yuma County. (Ariz, Coop. Sur , ) , 



CITRUS RUST MITE ( Phyllocoptru ta oleivora ) - FLORIDA - Adults infested 30 percent 

 cf 150 satsuma ( Citrus nobilis ) plants in nursery at Riverview, Hillsborough 

 County. (SimmonsJT ■• 



COTTONY CUSHION SCALE ( Icerva purchasi ) - ARIZONA - This species controlled in 60 

 acres of lemons by vedalia ( Rodolia cardina lis ) on Yuma Mesa. Heavy infestations in 

 residential areas of Yuma County; predators absent. (Ariz. Coop. Sur.). 



BROWN SOFT SCALE (Coccus hesperidum ) - ARIZONA - Mostly on residential citrus and 

 at small grove near Yuma City, Yuma County. (Ariz. Coop. Sur.). 



NAVEL ORANGEWORM (Paramyelois transitella ) - CALIFORNIA - Larvae 3 per citrus 

 fruit locally at La Mesa, San Diego County. (Cal. Coop. Rpt.). 



