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Toledo. The increase in percentage of ’blemished fruit over that of a year 
ago is obviously owing to a very light crop and to the fact that much spot 
spraying was dorie, 
Minnesota. A. G. Buggies (October 25): Unsprayed orchards showed a heavy in- 
festation, 
Missouri, L, Has eman (October 25); Recent counts of overwintering larvae under 
V tree bands indicate that many of the larvae reached maturity before late 
apples wore removed from the orchard; therefore we are goiiig into the winter 
with many apple worras. ‘ 
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Utah, C. J. Sorenson (October 2l) ! More larvae will overwinter in Utah County 
than during the last t^o seasons, 
Washington, B. J. 2Jcwcomer and M, A. Yothers (October 18): Hot weather, which 
lasted from September 10 to 27, has caused , an unusual amount of late v;orm 
infestation. Bruit shippers claim that in this respect it Is the worst* 
season they have ever experienced, and the Weather Bureau records show that 
it was the warmest September in 30 years. Pupation practically ceased by 
’ August 20. Of 1,200 larvae entering bands from Au.^st 23 to *30; only 3 or 
4 pupated, 
APHIDS (Aphiidae) • ■ . . 
M;:\ine, P, H, Lathrop (October 19){ Late in the summer in Monmouth, Kennebec 
County, the apple aphid ( Aphis pomi DeG, ) became very scarce and ‘colonies were 
difficult to find on apple trees. • On experimental trees a light infestation 
continued. Birst eggs were noticed on these trees the last week in September 
and are still being deposited. 
Kentucky, W. A. Price (October 24): Apple orchards at Lexington are heavily 
infested with the fall migrants of the rosy apple aphid ( Aauraphis 'rose'us 
Baker), Ovixjorous females are beir^g produced in considerable numbers, 
WHITE 'APPLE LEABHOPPEB (Typhlocyba pomariai McAtee) 
Maine, ' B, H, Lathrop (October 19) J Since the frosty ni^ts that occurred 
early in October, the adults have been depositing eggs in apple bark at 
Monmouth, The adults :jre noticeably less numerous since the hurricane of 
September 21, 
Connecticut, P. Garman (October l): Apparently many adults vrere destroyed by 
the hurricane of September 21, ■ Bew could be found around Hew Haven after 
the storm. 
A IvlE/JliYBUG ( Pse-iidococcus comstockii Kuw, ) 
South Carolina, J, A, Berly (October 2): About eight trees at Clerasbn rather 
heavily infested, mostlv on the main trunk, but scattered on smaller limbs 
also. (Det, tentatively/ by H, S. McConnell,)’ 
