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FRUIT INSECTS 
ELA.THEADED APPLE THEE BORER ( ChrysoBothris femorata 01 iv. ) 
Mississippi. C. Lyle (February 23); Larvae received from Washington County on 
October 23, 1939, information that they were taken from a pecan tree. 
Reports of injury to apple received from Lee County in November 1939» 
SHOT-HOLE BORER ( Scolytus rugulosus Ratz,) 
Mississippi, C, Lyle (February 23); Report of injury to plum trees received 
from Lauderdale County in December 1939* 
A BORER ( Scolytus sulcatus Lee.) 
Connecticut, P. Wallace (February): Larvae found in apple in North Haven in 
November 1939* 
WHITE PEACH SCALE ( Aulacaspis pentagona Targ, ) 
Delaware, 1, P. Felt (February 24); Reported as abundant on cherry and lilac 
near Wilmington, 
SAN JOSE SCALE ( As.pidiotus perniciosus Comst,) 
Georgia, 0. I. Snapp (January IS); Resproduction observed today at Fort Valley, 
central Gt^orgia. Reproduction takes place throughout the winter in this 
latitude. Recent observations show that crawlers under female scale cover- 
ings were killed by temperature of 18*^ F, Infestation in central Georgia 
now greater than that of an average year, 
Illinois, W, P, Flint (February 23): Overwintering scale in southern Illinois 
show from 20 to 30 percent survival, which is about normal and does not 
shoYJ any appreciable kill from the low temperatures encountered during the 
last 2 months, minimum tempt ^ratio^es of most sections from which samples were 
obtained having been -12^^ to -15 
APPLE 
APPLE APHIDS ( Aphiidae ) 
Connecticut, P, Garman (February 19)j Eggs of Anur aphis r os eus Baker and Aphis 
pomi Deg, are much less abundant on apple than last year, 
Virginia, W, S. Hough (February 20); Eggs not neimerous in the orchards of north- 
ern Virginia, About 50 miles south of Winchester the number of eggs in- 
cre-'ses considerably. During the fall months approximately 20 to 4o percent 
of the aphids found on apple foliage were A. r os eus . either migrants or ovi- 
parous forms, 
CODLING MOTii ( Gari)ocapsa pomonella L.) 
Georgia, J, E, Webb, Jr, (February 29): Examination of numerous hibernating 
larvae at Cornelia indicate practically no mortality from the unusually cold 
winter. Larvae are still completely dormant. 
