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PEAR 
PEAR PSYLLA ( Psyllia pyricola Foerst.) 
Connecticut. P. Garnan (May 19): Present in usual numbers in New Haven 
County. 
New York. N. Y. State Coll. Agr. News Letter (May): The pear psylla is 
present in most orchards in the Hudson River Valley hut is developing 
slowly. Reports indicate that the insect is more abundant in western 
New York. 
CHERRY 
BLACK CHERRY APHID ( Myzus cerasi P. ) ' 
Idaho. C. Wakeland (May 25) ' In Twin Palls County, south-central Idaho, the 
"black cherry aphid is very abundant on sweet cherries. Natural enemies 
are very abundant. 
PLUM 
RUSTY PLUM APHID ( Hysteroneura setariae Thos.) 
Mississippi. C. Lyle (May 2*0: Specimens received from Magnolia on May 3 
and from Vicksburg on May 21, both infestations being on plums. 
Missouri. L. Haseman (May 26): The rusty plum louse has been very abundant 
for the last three weeks throughout much of the' State on certain varie- 
ties of plums. 
Oklahoma. P. A. Fenton (May 2-0: The brown plum aphid was reported as being- 
very injurious to .plums in Oilton and Stillwater. 
BERRIES 
RASPBERRY ROOT BORER ( Bembecia marginata Harr.) 
Montana. H. B. Mills (May 10): On raspberry roots in Plathead County. 
Washington. W. W. Baker (May 8): At Puyallup many of the larvae have passed 
into the second instar and have been feeding on the new cane shoots 
which just started to grow and have caused serious damage by cutting 
down the possible new canes for 1937* 
RASPBERRY FRUITWORM ( Byturus u nicolor Say) 
Washington.- W. W. Baker (May 6): The beetle was found in only one of four 
fields on a farm near Gardiner, in the northwestern corner of Jefferson 
County (30 acres of loganberries). This is our first positive record 
of the occurrence of the insect on the Olympic Peninsula. Damage was 
