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FRUIT INSECTS 
ROSE LEAF BEETLE (Nodonota puncti colli s Say) 
New York. N. Y. State Coll. Agr. News Letter (June): Rose leaf beetles are 
damaging fruit in the Hudson River Valley. 
Maryland and Virginia. W. H. White (June 3)! During the latter part of May 
and the early part of June many reports have "been received regarding the 
abundance of the rose leaf "beetle to rose, peonies, azalea, raspberry, 
and strawberry in parts of Maryland and Virginia adjacent to the District 
of Columbia. 
West Virginia. L. M. Peairs (June 18): This chrysonelid has done a lot of 
damage to apples and other fruits. We have it from the Eastern Panhandle, 
where it is generally distributed, and from as far west as Lewis County. 
(Det. by H. S. Barber as Nodonota , probably puncticollis . ) 
A CHRYSOMELID ( Gastroidoa aenca Mclsh.) 
Virginia. W. J. Schoonc (June 25): This leaf beetle was very abundant 
during the last week of May and the first week of Juno. It ate holes in 
the sides of many apples and was very abundant in roses and ether flowers. 
It has accounted for about as much injury to fruit as the worst of our 
early season pests. : 
PLAT-HEADED APPLE TREE BORER ( Chrysobothris femorata Oliv. ) 
Georgia. T. L. Bissell (June 25): Borors have done very little injury to 
pecan trees at Milner and Macon the past year, in comparison to injury 
in the same orchards in previous years. 
Missouri. L. Haseman (June 2U): The adult was on wing throughout June but 
no activity of the larvae has been noted on trees visited by the beetle. 
Nobraska. M. H. Swenk (May-June): Reports- of injury to fruit and shade trees 
were received during the last 2 weeks of May, and the first 2 weeks of 
June from Douglas, Washington, Dodge, Seward, Buffalo, and Hayes Counties. 
A FLOWER THRIPS ( Frankliniella occidentalis Perg.) 
California. S. Lockwood (June 12): The blossom thrips has been responsible 
for considerable scarring to stone fruit in Contra Costa, Solano, Placer, 
and Tulare Counties. 
PLANT BUGS (Lygus spp.) 
Michigan. R. Hutson (June 25): The tarnished plant bug (L. prat ens is L.) 
has been reported as very abundant on peaches from Albion, Howell, Grand 
Rapids, Fonnville, Sodus, and Hartford. 
Connecticut. P. Garman (June 19): L. carvae Knight and other species are 
present in some orchards but not so abundant as they were last year. 
