F R U I T- I H ,S E C T S 
EASTERN TENT CATERPILLAR ( Malacosoma americana F, ) 
New York, N, Y* State Coll; Agr, News Letter (April 22)t >No eggs observed 
' in Ulster County but abundant in Dutchess County, both in eastern New 
York. - 
Virginia, C.R, Willey (April)} Reported to be about as numerous as usual. 
■'North Carolina. C. S. Brimley (April 5)* * First webs of tent caterpillars 
noted'On wild cherry at Raleigh, 
Georgia. T, L.Bissell (April 2h)t Larvae about mature leaving cherry trees 
at Experiment; 
Florida, A. H, -Madden (March, 3l)j Abundant on wild crabapple and wild cherry 
in Gadsden County, Larv;^^ about full grown, 
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Alabama. J., -M. Robinson (April g)j Observed on apples and wild cherry at 
Tuskegee, 
'Mississippi, C, Lyle and assistants (April :23)j Colonies observed on wild 
cherry in the southeastern counties of the State, and on wild cherry and 
peach in Choc^iaw and Webster Counties on April 1, Also reported on pl\un 
in Holmes County and in the Meridian area. Abundant in southern 
Mississippi on cherries, plums, and other trees, and have matured, 
Louisiana, L.D, Newsom (April 25): Reported abundant in northwestern 
Louisiana, ‘ . 
WESTERN TENT CATERPILLAR ( Malacosoma pluvial is Dyar) 
Oregon, D; C. .Mot^ and assistants (April 8): Infestations of coast tent 
caterpillar are occurring only in individual prune, cherry, filbert, 
and apple orchards in the Willamette Valley, Orchards severely infested 
in 1939 lightly infested now, -Heaviest infestation observed in a 
filbert orchard, where nests averaged 3 P©^ tree, 
FLATHEADED APPLE TREE BORER ( Chrysobothris f emorata Oliv, ) 
Nebraska, M. H, Swenk (April 15)j During the period March 16 to April 15, 
complaints of damage to apple, elm, ash, and other trees were received 
from Nemaha, Burt, Johnson, Madison, Hamilton, and Harlan Counties, 
Oklahoma. F. A. Fenton (April 27i 19^0)* Reported on bush cherry and 
Japanese flowering quince at Lindsay, 
