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FRUIT INSECTS 
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SHOT-HOLE BOBER ( Scolytus rugulosus Ratz.) 
North Carolina. D. L. Wray (September 20): Considerable damage 
to apple trees observed in Catawba County. 
Mississippi. C. Lyle (October 25): Reports of injury to peach 
trees received from Sunflower and Warren Counties late in 
September. 
FLATHEADED APPLE TREE BORER ( Chrysobothris femorata 01 iv.) 
Mississippi. C. Lyle (October 25): A larva received from Washington 
County on October 23, with information that this species was 
killing young pecan trees in one grove. 
SAN JOSE SCALE ( Aspidiotus perniciosus Const.) 
Minnesota. A. 0. Ruggles (October 20): Reported from Rose Township. 
Mississippi. C. Lyle (October 25): Heavy infestations reported 
from the Meridian area and from the southeastern section, where 
one young peach orchard has been practically destroyed. 
Moderately abundant in the Jackson territory. 
APPLE 
CODLING MOTH ( Carp o caps a pomonclla L. ) 
Virginia. A. M. Woodside (October 20): No third brood in Augusta 
Comity, according to insectary and bait-pail records. 
Minnesota. A. G. Ruggles (October 20): Very abundant where trees 
were not treated properly. 
Missouri. L. Hasenan (October 23): Extremely heavy pick-up of 
third-brood larvae reported. Largely out of the fruit and into 
their winter cocoons. Last moths taken in bait traps at Cape 
Girardeau on October 10. 
Utah. C. J. Sorenson (October 23): Moderately abundant throughout 
the State. Occasionally found infesting ripening peach fruits 
in Utah County. 
Washington. E. J. Newcomer (October 19): Moths very active in 
Yakima County until September 26, owing to warm weather. 
Oregon. B. G. Thompson (October 20): Active in apples and pears in 
the Willamette Valley until September 15- 
