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PACIFIC RED SPIDER ( Tetranychus pacificus Ma G. ) 
California.. S. Lock^ood (October 2): This red spider ^as observed doing 
considerable damage to one of the grain sorghums in Kern County in 
Septetrber. 
ALFALFA 
ALFALFA WEEVIL (Hyper a postica Gyll. ) 
California. A. E. Michelbacher (October 17): Larval populations throughout 
the infested area in middle lowland California retrain small. Highest 
counts are found in the San Francisco Bay area, ^here at the present tirre 
as irany as 75 have been taken to 100 sleeps of an insect net. On Septem- 
ber 30 in one field in this area 38 out of 118 large larvae ^ere found to 
be parasitized by Bathypl ec tes curculionis Thorns. 
FRUIT INSECTS 
APPLE 
CODLING- MOTH ( Carpocapsa po monella L. ) 
Georgia. C. H. Alden (October 21 ); The entire crop has been cleaner than 
in several years past and codling rroth injury is considerably reduced. 
Ohio. T. H. Parks (October 23): Counts trade in 57 Ohio orchards where the 
spray service ^a*? followed sho^s the codling troth to be ^ell controlled 
by two (in a few orchards three) cover sprays against the first brood 
and by ore cover spray against the second brood. The average nuirber of 
stung or wormy fruits in the 57 orchards is 3.2 percent. This is the 
lowest injury since 1929. 
Missouri. L. Haseman (October 23): Checkups in experimental and other or- 
chards during October indicate that fe^-er larvae are going into hiberna- 
tion this year than in the past several years. 
California. S. Lock^ood (October 2): During the summer the codling moth 
proved to be more serious than usual and certainly has been more injurious 
than in 1934 to apples and pears over much of the Sacramento Valley. In 
sorre areas larvae ^ere found in peaches. This ^as particularly true in 
Sutter County, where the damage done ranged around 1 percent in some peach 
orchards. 
YELLOW-NECKED CATERPILLAR (Patau.? minist ra Drury ) 
Mis?ouri. L. Haseman (October 23): During the past 3 *-eeks there has been a 
scourge of la.te yellow-necked apple -orms on both bearing and young apple 
trees in central Missouri. I h^.ve never knorn this pest to have a Septem- 
ber and October brood before. 
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