FRUIT INSECTS 
SAN JOSE SCALE ( Aspidiotus peraiciosus Comst.) 
Georgia. 0. I. Snapp (March 20): The unusually long cold period at Fort 
Valley, central Georgia, in January, during which a minimum temperature 
of 9° F. was recorded, killed a number of the mature and less than half- 
grown immature stages and all crawlers. As a result, the general infesta- 
tion was reduced to a point below that of an average year. 
Mississippi. C. Lyle (March 22); ’ Specimens on walnut received from Wayne 
County on March 2. Reports of injury to fruit trees received from Winston 
County, from the Jackson and Grenada districts, and from the northeastern 
part of the State. 
PEACH TWIG BORER ( Anar si a lineatella Zell.) 
California. S. F, Bailey (March 25 ) • Emergence from hibernacula in almond- 
growing districts began on March 7 and on peach about 10 days to 2 weeks 
later. The early emerging larvae are now mature. Some of the small larvae 
were found feeding in the tiny nuts in Colusa County. Usually they do not 
attack the almonds until the nuts are full grown. 
APPLE 
CODLING MOTH ( Carpocapsa pomonella L.) • 
New York. D. W. Hamilton (March 23); Winter mortality of larvae has been low. 
Only 6.25 percent in overwintering bards, examined on March 21, were dead. 
No extremely low temperatures have occurred. It was below zero on four 
occasions, and the minimum at Poughkeepsie for the winter was -6° F. 
Spring development is later than that of the last few years. 
Missouri. L. Haseman (March 27) 5 The severe winter has caused considerable 
mortality, some readings in northwestern Missouri running as high as 75 
percent. Mortality materially smaller throughout central Missouri. 
Missouri and Kansas. H. Baker (March 22): Low temperatures during much of the 
month of January, with a minimum of -27° F. at the St. Joseph, Mo. , 
airport in a bottom, or low-land, location, killed many hibernating 
larvae. Mortality in northwestern Missouri and northeastern Kansas has 
been found to vary widely according to location, but an avere.ge of checks 
• in several orchards indicates it to be from 35 to ^0 percent in hill-land 
orchards and from 60 to 75 percent in bottom-land ones. 
EASTERN TENT CATERPILLAR ( Malacosoma americana F. ) 
Michigan, E. I. McDaniel (March 2l); Eggs observed on March 18 at Detroit. 
