n SEC T FZ5T SURVEY BULL3TI1! 
Vol. 10 March 1, 1930 No, 
OUTSTANDING 3NT01 jLOGICaL FEATURES IN THE UNITED STATES 
FOB JANUARY AND FEBRUARY, 1930. 
In introducing Volume 10 of the Insect rest Survey Bulletin, '<"e are 
gratified' to announce th< t tie number of States ti:t have organised State 
surveys to collaborate with b.ie Federal Insect rest Survey has increased 
at approximately the rate of one State a year since tie Survey finished 
its inaugural year. ie are no^- associated v-ith active State Surveys in 
Illinois, Iowa", Minnesota, Mississi : :i , Montana, North Carolina, Oregon, 
and Wisconsin, *-ith prospects that several States will organize Surveys 
during the coming year. 
In general throughout the eastern deciduous fruit belt, aphid eggs 
do not seam to be abnormally abundant, although the apple grain aphid is 
reported unusually numerous in parts of Missouri. 
Mortality of the codling moth in Indiana and .Illinois was extremely 
high, in many places all larvae n v uv been hilled. The insect oassed 
the winter more successfully fro..: Missouri southward. 
The European red ,:.t; was rediscovered in Utah last August after 
a lapse of five years si >ce .1 s last observed in that State. 
The San Jose scale seems to be slig.:tly on the increase in the 
Middle Atlantic States. Eiis condition extends throughout the southern 
part of the East Central States -\iile in the northern part of these 
States winter mortality has been high. North of St. Louis, in Illinois, 
only 2 per cent of the sc^le survived. 'est of the Mississippi the scale 
semis to be increasing. 
The oriental fruit moth suffered very high mortality in northern 
Illinois and Indiana, and even in the southern cart of these States -inter 
killing of the larvae was sevire. 
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