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C. R. Crosby and assistants report this insect as very abundant and 
injurious throughout Orlsa&s Goraaty. Second-, hrood nymphs wore just 
beginning tc reach the ''h&rd^siall" stage by July 9. They also report 
this insect s.s ^ary serious in unsprayed ©rchc.-rds in Ulster and Albany 
Counties. By July 18 this insect was all in the second brood, adult 
st age . 
PEAR LEAP BLISTER MITE ( Eriophyes pyri Pgst.) 
Mas??acha- A. I. Bourse (July 20). "Seems to be more abundant than usual, especi- 
ssfcts ally in unsprayed orchards." 
New fork C. R. Crosby and assistants report this insect as present late in June 
in Onondaga County, much more abundant than usual, early in July in 
Orleans County, and present in noticeable numbers in Albany, Madison 
and Pulton Counties. 
PEAR BORER ( Aegeria pyri Harris) 
Wfiest 
W. E. Rucsey (June 29) . "Apple tree badly infested. Adults just recently 
Virginia emerged, a few stragglers still developing. The bark peppered with 
protruding pupal skins." 
RUSTY LEAP LUTE (P hyllocoptes schlectendal i ITalepa) 
Oregon A, L. Lovett (July 3) . "Generally more serious than usual on pears in 
Lane County and on prunes in Marion County. The mites are clustered on 
the terminal growth in enormous numbers. At Corvallis in Benton County 
the infestation is less severe than last season." 
PEACH 
BLACK PEACH APHIS ( Anur au his persj e^a-niger Smith) 
Maryland E. N. Cory (July 1) . "A new orchard of about 2,000 trees at Smithsburg 
is badly infested. About 25 per cert of the trees are dead or dying. 
An old orchard near by is entirely killed." 
PEACH-TWIG BORER ( Anarsia lineatella Zell.) 
Delaware C. 0. Houghton. "Have not observed this species here this spring where 
it has been very common at times during the last few years." 
Oregon A. L. Lovett (June 17) . "Generally prevalent in western Oregon. 
Slightly above average abundance." 
ORIENTAL PEACH MOTH ( Lasnevresia molest a Bus ck) 
, "Has apj 
planting: 
Virginia L. A. Stearns (July 7). "Has appeared in a number of commercial orchards 
in Fairfax County. In plantings of the current year darjege dons as 
very serious." 
