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PLANT BUGS ( Lygus spp.) 
Utah. C. J. Sorenson (April 20) i Overwintered adults of L. hesperus Knight 
and L. elisus V an D. observed on alfalfa at Perry and Tremonton; no 
nymphs observed. 
MEADOW PLANT BUG ( Mir is dolobratus L.) 
Kentucky, W. A, Price (April 25): Eggs started to hatch at Lexington on 
April 15. Grass sweepings indicate a rather large population in central 
Kentucky. 
Correction , — The report on Limonius calif ornicus Mann, by ,C. E. Wood- 
worth in the last number of the Bulletin (v. 22, No. 2, p. 21, April 1, 
1942). should read as follows: Washington. C, E. Woodworth (March 9): 
One male recovered in a store in Walla Walla in a head of broccoli from 
Los Angeles. The insect is in full emergence at Los Angeles, but not yet 
out of the ground locally. 
FRUIT INSECTS 
SAN JOSE SCALE ( Aspidiotus pe rnicio sus Const.) 
New York. N. Y. State Coll. Agr, News Letter (April 13) t This scale de- 
veloped during the dry season of 1941 in Niagara County, Some blocks of 
peaches treated for several years for disease have developed sizable in- 
festations. 
Pennsylvania. H. M. Steiner (April 24): Increased in 1941 and s.potty in- 
festations occur throughout the Adams County area on apple. , 
Georgia. 0. I. Snapp (April 2): A heavy infestation was observed today in 
a Fort Valley peach orchard which did not receive treatment last winter. 
Ohio. E. W. Mendenhall (April 1): A commercial plum orchard north of 
Worthington, in Delaware County, is badly infested with the .scale, which 
is killing the limbs. ... 
Mississippi. C. Lyle, et'al. (April 24): Light infestations reported frcm 
the Durant district and from Hinds County; heavy infestations reported on 
unsprayed .trees in the Meridian district. 
EUROPEAN RED MITE ( Parat etran.ychus pilosus C * & F . ) 
New York, N. Y, State Coll. Agr. News Letter (April 27): Eggs beginning 
to hatch in apple orchards in Orange and Rockland Counties. 
Pennsylvania. H. M. Steiner (April 24): Hatching of overwintered eggs on 
apple, peach; a,nd sour cherry began April 15 in Adams County, but was 
checked by cool weather for several days; approximately 15 percent of the 
total eggs hatched by April 24. Eggs are less numerous than at any time 
since 1938. 
APPLE 
CODLING MOTH ( Carpocapsa pomonella L.) 
New York. , D. W. Hamilton (April 25): First pupae were found at Poughkeepsie 
on April 25, 4 days later than in 1941, but 9 days ahead of the average date* 
