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Kentucky 
Georgia 
New York 
RED SFIDER ( Tetranychus sp.) 
H. Carman (August 23): Sugar maples are suffering from the 
attacks of red spider, a pest that attacks low-growing plants 
like phlox. 
OAK 
OAK LECANIUM ( Lecaniu ro auercifex Fitch ) 
J. D. More: ' Reported from Montezuma on July 3, and from Farming- 
ton on June 26, attacking oak. 
. APPLE-TREE FRUITER ( Hypermallus villosus Fab. ) 
C. R. Crosby and assistants: Reported "by H. E. Davis on August 2 
from Suffolk County, with statement that a rather heavy infesta- 
tion was found. 
PINE 
Georgia 
Germany 
COTTONY PINE SCALE (F seudophiliT/p ia quantancii Ckll.) 
John D. More (July 11 )•: S. B. Adair reported that this insect 
was attacking pine at Mt. Berry on this date. 
OWL MOTH (species undetermined) 
A. E. Boadle, acting Chief, Lumber Division, Bureau of Foreign 
and Domestic Commerce, Department of Commerce. (American Trade 
Commissioner Douglas P. Miller, Berlin, July 24, 1924): The 
present summer has been the occasion of extensive ravages through- 
out the forests of eastern Germany by a small night-flying moth- 
called the r, owl moth" in Germany. This insect extracts the sap 
from pine needles and in a short time caused the death of the 
entire tree. It is estimated that during the present year 8 
to 10 million solid cubic meters of lumber, particularly pine 
and fir, will have to be cut and placed on the market. 
Large forest areas in Brandenburg, Pomerania, West Prussia and 
Silesia are being devastated by these insects and the entire for- 
ests are turning-. brown and, shrivelled. It seems that the only 
method of combating the pest, is the cutting down of trees in the 
infested areas. Further information concerning the effects of 
this forest pest will be forwarded as it comes to hand. 
SPRUCE 
Rhode Island 
SPRUCE GSLL APHID (Chermes abietis L. ) 
A. E. Stene (August 22) : Spruce chermes have been reported as 
doing considerable damage in a few plantations in the northern 
part of the State. 
