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South Dakota. H. C. Scvcrin (June): This scale is exceedingly abundant in 
South Dakota. Many trees and vines look as if they were entirely 
covered with a coating of popcorn. 
Nebraska. M. H. Swenk (June): Reports of damage to naple and other trees 
were received from Dawson and Custer Counties. 
OBSCURE SCALE ( Chrysonphalus obscurus Const.) 
Tennessee. G. M. Bentley (Juno 20): Obscure scale is a very connon pest of 
sugar maple in all parts of Tennessee. 
OAK 
CALIFORNIA OAK WORM ( Phryganidia californica Pack. ) 
California. R. E. Campbell (June 10): Complaints have been received of the 
California oak moth attacking oak trees in Alhambra and vicinity. A 
number of fine old trees on a golf course have been partially defoliated. 
PINE 
EUROPEAN PINE SHOOT MOTH ( Rhyacionla buo liana Schiff.) 
Massachusetts. J. V. Schaffner, Jr. (June 12): The infestations of European 
pine shoot moth seen to persist only in plantings of pine near the sea- 
shore or on low-growing pines, such as Pinus montana mughus , a few miles 
inland. At Forest Hills a large ornamental planting of Scotch pine 
intermixed with mugho pino is seriously infested, while a plantation of 
red pines a few hundred feet away, which wns heavily infested prior to 
193^. i s now free from infestation. 
Connecticut. J. V. Schaffner, Jr. (June 12): In southwestern Connecticut 
some plantations were found heavily infested this spring. 
New York. J. V. Schaffner, Jr. (June 12): In the southern half of V/estchester 
County and on Long Island, some plantations were found to be heavily 
infested. 
R. D. Glasgow (June 17): The European pine shoot moth hns shown a 
remarkable recovery this spring in the lower Hudson Valley. 7/hile enor- 
mously abundant and destructive a few years ag"> in part3 of Westchester 
County, of the lower Hudson Valley, and of Long Island, this insect was 
greatly reduced in numbers by the unusually cold winter of 193^- Larvae 
and pupae were still relatively rare on untreated trees in the spring of 
1935 later in the samo year eggs were difficult to find whore hundreds 
were found 2 years ago. On Juno 10, however, a count on 10 young untreated 
trees in Westchester County revealed an averag-o of between S6 and 87 living 
larvae and pupae per tree. 
