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The woolly appl? aphis is appearing in unusually large numbers in 
Massachusetts and New York. 
Reports have been received of a complete defoliation o£ apple 
orchards in New York and Minnesota, and serious damage serlndsjarfarcbyethe 
spring cankerworm. 
The oriental peach moth has appeared in a number of commercial 
orchards in Fairfax County, Va-, and serious damage is being done to some 
of this year's plantings. 
The plum curculio is reported as damaging a very heavy percentage 
of the fruit crop in Ohio, northern New York, and Massachusetts and is 
especially abundant on apples in Indiana. 
The quarantine on the Mexican bean beetle has been lifted owing 
to the fact that recent survey work has indicated that this pest is well 
established over so large a region that effective quarantine is imprac- 
tical. 
Flea-beetles attacking potatoes are unusually numerous this month 
in New York, South Dakota, and Delaware. Hopperburn caused by the potato 
or apple leaf hopper is quite bad in New York, South Dakota, and Illinois. 
White grubs are reported as being about twice as numerous as usual 
in Kansas, about 25 per cent to 75 per cent of the potato crop about 
Manhattan, Kans., having been damaged. 
Blister beetles seem to be unusually abundant throughout the greater 
part of the United States, east of the Rocky Mountains. Reports of serious 
infestation have been received from New York, Indiana, Illinois, Oliio, 
Missouri, Mississippi, South Dakota, and Nebraska. 
The cabbage aphis is present in such numbers in New York State as to 
occasion dipping of the plants before setting, and spraying of the crop 
in the fields. These insects liave also been numerous in Nebraska. 
The onion maggot is reported as doing ver'/ serious damage in New York, 
Indiana, and Oregon. 
The camphor scale, reported in the last two numbers of the Bulletin, 
has been discovered very recently in Mississippi and every effort is being 
made to stamp out this outbreak. 
The forest tent caterpillar has been doing a tremendous amount of damage 
to the hardwoods of northern and western Minnesota. 
The cotton boll weevil seems to be very much more numerous than usual 
and indications are that it will do more damage than ever before in Florida 
and northern Mississippi. Very heavy infestations are also reported from 
Arkansas and Texas. 
An unexpected outbreak of tobacco hornwcrms destroyed from 75 to 100 
per cent of the crop about Madison, Wis. 
