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SAN JOSE SCALE ( Arpjdiotus perniciosus Const, ) 
New York. N. Y. State Coll. Agr. News Letter (April 10): Apparently on the in- 
crease on poaches and prunes in Niagara County and on apple in Orleans 
County. More orchards infested this spring than noted in 'some time. 
Georgia. 0. I. Snapp (April 19): Four- year-old peach orchard ’killed near Fort 
Valley, central Georgia. Infestation still greater than that of an average 
year. 
Washington. E. J. Newcomer (April IS): An unusual degree of paras it izat ion hy 
Aphelinus sp. noted at Yakima. Percentage of parasites not estimated, hut 
over 100 reared from about 12 feet of heavily infested twigs of apple and 
pear. 
OYS TEES HELL SCALE ( Lepidosaphes ulmi L.) 
Hew York. N. Y. State Coll. Agr. News Letter (April 10): Apparently increasing 
in Orleans County this spring, as more orchards are Infested than have been 
noted in some time. 
Michigan. E. Hutson (April 22); Reported as prevalent on apple at Empire, in 
the northern part of the Southern Peninsula. 
PACIFIC MITE ( Tetranychus paci ficus McG. ) 
Washington. Ortho News (April 17 ) * Observed migrating up trees for about 10 days 
numbers having apparently wintered successfully under the bark. Reported 
as being well up in tops of trees in the Yakima Valley on April 15* 
APPLE 
CODLING MOTH ( Carpocapsa pomonella L. ) 
New York. N* Y. State Coll. Agr. News Letter (April 10) : Examination of bands 
in the vicinity of Poughkeepsie indicates a low larval mortality. Of 219 
larvae examined on March 21 only 12 percent reported as dead. 
Delaware. L, A. Stearns (April 7) 5 On March 28 there was 80-percent survival 
and no pupation of overwintered larvae. 
Virginia. A. M, Woods ide (April 22): About 25 percent of larvae have pupated 
at Staunton. 
Georgia. J, E. Webb, Jr. (April 25): First moths emerged in insectary at 
Cornelia on April 19 . On April 24 first field record of moths was of l4 
caught in 10 traps in ran apple orchard at Cornelia. 
Alabama. J. M. Robinson (April 2^): Larvae and pupae more abundant; some adults 
emerged on April 4. 
