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orchards. In Bristol County and the Cape region they have been re- 
ported as being present in about average numbers, no worse at any 
rate than in normal years. In northern Plymouth County a report 
from Brockton states that hardly any have been found in orchards. 
In the counties in the Connecticut Valley they have been found 
to be quite plentiful on the opening buds, but no worse than last 
year, and not abundant enough to cause any serious worry. Here at 
the college, although examination of the trees in the dormant season 
indicated a large number of eggs, the hatch was very small indeed, 
and the lice are present in unusually small numbers throughout all 
the blocks of apples in the orchards. Not enough lice are present, 
in fact, to warrant a call for Black-Leaf 40 in the early spring spray. 
New York P. J. Parrott (April 23): The first nymphs of Zrhis nomi were found 
on this date at Geneva. 
C. R. Crosby and assistants: This aphid is found present but not 
abundant in Monroe, Chautauqua, Onondaga, Genesee, Orleans, and Suffolk 
Counties . 
Georgia Oliver I. Snapp (May l) : The apple leaf-aphid is unusually abundant 
on the apple in this locality this season. 
APPLE GRAIN APHID ( Rhopalosiphum prunifoliae Fitch) 
KWv York C. R. Crosby and assistants: The grain aphids began hatching the 
latter part of April; they are reported as very abundant throughout 
Ontario and Columbia Counties, also recorded from Onondaga, Oswego, 
Genesee, and Westchester Counties. 
Alabar.a Neale F. Howard (April 11) : This aphid is very abundant on rye on 
the Bureau's experimental plots here. Hipoodamia conveniens Guer. 
is very abundant and Meg ilia maculata DeG . is quite numerous, eggs 
of the latter being quite common. This rye is being plowed under 
for a cover crop and the infestation has not been present long enough 
to have caused any injury. No loss has occurred on this field. 
ROSY APPLE AFHID ( Anur aphis roseus Baker) 
New York C. R. Crosby and assistants: This species is only present in limited 
numbers throughout the apple-growing sections of the State. 
Indiana J. J. Davis (Hay 22): The rosy apple aphid is doing some damage in 
sections of southern Indiana. They are doing damage in several 
orchards and one in particular at Clayton, Ind., which was examined 
May 19 . Several trees in this orchard were sprayed with 2 per cent 
lubricating oil emulsion as the buds were opening up and afiter the 
aphids had hatched. The owner advises that the young aphids were 
killed but that many of the older individuals survived the treatment. 
This same orchardist sprayed apple trees at different stages of 
development from the time the buds were beginning to open up until 
the leaves were the size of a squirrel's ear or larger. At no time 
did he get injury from the properly prepared oil emulsion. 
