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orie:jtal pruit moth 
Twig and fruit injury "by the oriental fruit moth was reported as 
light over most of the infested territory. A report from Illinois on 
July 2k stated that large numbers of larvae were entering peaches. In 
Ohio, although early peaches escaped injury and later varieties suffered 
little injury, quinces were severely damaged. The insect was discovered 
in the northwestern corner of Missouri in 1935, the first record for that 
part of the State, It had "been present across the State line in Kansas 
since 1932. Our first report of its presence in New Hampshire was received 
in September, 
EASTERN TENT CATERPILLAR 
A very severe outbreak of the eastern tent caterpillar occurred this 
year. The infestation was centered in the New England States, southeastern 
New York, and New Jersey, and extended into northwestern New York, Pennsyl- 
vania, northeastern Ohio, through ".Test Virginia, eastern Kentucky, and into 
Tennessee and Georgia. As early as March 20 tents were "being observed in 
Tennessee, and on March 25 the heaviest infestation on record was reported 
from the Port Valley district in Georgia, The great abundance of overwinter- 
ed egg masses started to hatch the last week of March in the latitude of 
Washington, D. C. , and by the last week of April, they had been progressively 
reported as hatching all the way northward to Vermont and New Hampshire, 
Within the next 2 months complete defoliation was reported from much of the 
infested area and the insect had taken a place as one of the outstanding 
tree insects of the season, 
FRUIT PLIES 
Glass fly traps, baited with a solution of brown sugar and water, 
have proved their value in locating infestations of Anastreoha ludens Loew 
in the Rio Grande Valley. Through the use of these traps, adults were 
taken on 166 premises and brush locations in 193^~35« The total number of 
flies trapped in the valley area was approximately 20 percent greater than 
the number trapped in 1933~3^"» "but the number of premises known to be 
infested with adults decreased 5*7 percent. Larval infestations were 
located in grapefruit on 27 properties in the lower part of the valley. 
As in the case of an adult infestation, the trees on all properties where 
larvae were found were promptly sprayed and the fruit was buried, processed, 
or limited as to use. On account of finding infestations near Falfurri ft s 
in March, 1935 > "the regulated area was enlarged to include Brooks County, 
Tex. Besides A. ludens , S other species of fruit flies have been taken in 
traps in the Rio Grande Valley, but there has been no record of their 
attacking any fruit of economic importance* The local host of only one of 
these flies is known. A, pallens Coq 3 has been found to feed only in the 
seeds of Bumelia angustif olia . The iSipaya fruit fly ( Toxotryuana curvicauda 
Gerst.) has been captured, but this species is of no economic importance 
under valley conditions, ^lie other 6 species taken in the traps have not 
been found infesting fruit and comparatively little is known of their habits. 
Included among these finds were A. serpentina V/ied, A. fraterculus Auct., 
and A. striata Schin, (P. S. Hoidale, Bureau of Entomology and Plant 
Quarantine, U. S. D. A.) 
