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ALMONDS 
CLOVER MITE ( Bryobia praetiosa Koch) 
California Monthly News Lstter, Los Angeles County Horticultural 
Commission, Vol. 11, No. 6, June 15: Almond orchards in the 
Antelope Valley have experienced one of their heaviest infes- 
tations of almond mites this spring. The Fain Ranch near 
Palmdale, -'hich has some 200 acres of almonds, had an excep- 
tionally heavy infestation. The mites had very favorable 
weather conditions for working. 
CITRUS 
I/ISDITERRAIISAI" FRUIT FLY ( Ceratitis capitate Hied.) 
General Plant Quarantine and Control Administration (June 29): 
During the month the fruit fly has been found in many new lo- 
calities and is now known to occur in the following fourteen 
counties: Orange, Seminole, Lake, Osceola, Brevard, Volusia, 
Flagler, St. Johns, Putnam, ^arion, Sumter, Polk, Hillsboro, 
and Pinellas . 
During June, infested fruit which came from Florida has been 
found at the following three places: Fort Worth, Tex., 
Raleigh, }'.. C, and Little Rock, Ark. (in addition to lot 
included in last report;. All of this infested fruit was dis- 
covered between the first and sixth of the month , and although 
the inspection force has been greatly increased during June 
no other infested shipments have been reported. 
In carrying out the eradication program outlined in the 
first edition of the federal quarantine, and included in sub- 
sequent editions of the state quarantine, host fruits and 
vegetables in the infested zonfeJf?being destroyed and the re- 
moval of noncitrus hoots in the surrounding protective zones 
is under way. as required by the quarantine regulations, 
shipment of citrus fruits of the present crop from the entire 
State of Florida (except limes from Monroe and Dade Counties 
and other citrus fruit from approved cold storage plants) ter- 
minated on June 15. The shipment of other host fruits and 
vegetables from the protective zones, except those for which 
special extension (in some cases to June 30) was made, has 
been discontinued for the summer and fall. 
California Monthly Hews Letter, Los Angeles County Horticultural 
Commission, Vol, 11, Ho. 6, June 15: The Mediterranean fruit 
fly survey is no^ well under ""ay in southern California, and 
plans for the project's organization were laid at a meeting 
in Los .jigeles of all horticultural commissions of the south- 
ern counties. At a prior meeting of state and county offi- 
cials, Mr. D. 3. Mackie, State entomologist, was chosen to di- 
rect a State-side survey for the oresence of the fly. 
PLANT BOABP 
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