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CURRANT STB.!-<>I3DLSR (Jan}is integer Norton) 
Midiigan R, H. Pettit (J"wie 19): The currant stem-girdler has appeared 
in one or two places and the one located near Grand Rapids has 
girdled off the tips of 2 acres of currants. 
PECAl? 
HICKORY SHOOT CURCULIO ( Conotrachelus aratus Oermar) 
Mississippi E. ¥, Earned (ifey 27): An insect that is thought to he the 
hickory shoot -<curculio has heen serious enough to attract 
cconsiderahle attention at several points in the State^ Specimens 
have "been received from Jones, LeFlore, and Lincoln Counties, 
This insect has not attracted attention as a pecan pest in 
previous years, 
PECAU-LEAJ CASE-BEiiREa (Acrohasis ne Dig el la Riley) 
(Georgia N. P» Peebles (May 17): Reported from Macon, Bainbridge, and 
Prestnn attacking pecans, 
Mississippi R» W, Earned (May 27): quite a few complaints have been 
received from southern Mississippi during the past few weeks in 
regard to the pecan case-bearer damaging pecan trees. Apparently 
these insects are much more numerous than usual in the region 
from 30 to 60 miles north of the Q-ulf Coast. 
Phylloxera spp« 
Mississippi R, W. Earned (June 20): Are apparently more n-umerous on pecan 
trees throughout this State this year than during any recent 
year. Complaints in regard to them are being received almost 
every day from different parts of the State, 
PHYLLOXEEIA GALLS (Phylloxera caryae-ren Riley) 
Mississippi R. W, Earned (May 27): These galls have attracted much .attention 
in different parts of the State during the past few weeks. The 
only specimens that have so far been determined definitely were 
determined by T, L, Guyton, Harrisburg, Pa,, as P hylloxera 
caryae^-ren , 
PALL WEBWORM (Hyphantr ia cunea Dru, ) 
Mississippi M, R, Smith (June 17): The fall webwom is beginning to show 
up slightly on pecan trees at Atta Bena. Judging from the 
size of the ca.terpillars seen, their generation is in its earliest 
stages, 
A- LEAF'-BESHLII' (Colaspis favosa Say) 
Mississippi R, W. Earned (June 20): The leafbeetle Colaspis favosa was 
found seriously injuring pecan leaves in a nursery at 
Pascagoula on June 15» 
