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PEAR 
PEAR BORER (Syr ian the don pyri Harr.) 
West Virginia. L. M. Peairs (June): The pear "borer is reported in Berkeley County, 
Large numbers of adults were captured in codling-moth bait pails May 26 to June 
10. 
PEAR SLUG ( Eriocampoides limacina Ratz.) 
West Virginia. L. M. Peairs (June): Pear slugs are abundant at Morgantown. 
CHERRY 
CHERRY FRUIT PLIES ( Rhagoletis spp.) 
Michigan. R. H. Pettit (June 12): The black-bodied cherry fruit fly (R. faus^a 
0. S.) appeared at Gobies in Van Buren County on the 5th of June, at Grand 
Rapids on the 7th of June, and &t Shelby on the 8th of June. The white-banded 
cherry fruit fly (E, cingulata Loew) emerged at Niles ir. Cass County June- 6 and 
Benton Harbor June 7. 
New York. N. Y. State Coll. of Agr. News Letter (June): The cherry fruit fly (R, 
fausta 0. S.) was observed on a tree on May 31 in Dutchess County. In Ulster 
County they began emerging by June 2 and six were found the first day. They wer 
first noted in orchards in Columbia County on May 31. On* June 2 they began to 
appear in the traps in small numbers. 
BLACK SHERRY APHID ( Myzus cerasi Fab.) 
New York. N. Y. State Coll. of Agr. News Letter (June): luring the first week in 
June the black cherry aphid did serious damage to cherry in the lower Hudson 
River Valley and was abundant later in the month in Onondaga and Niagara Count ie 
(Abstract, J.A.H.) 
Michigan. Ray Hut son (June 13): It appears that the black cherry aphid is just 
appearing in northern Michigan — that is, Grand Traverse County, the Leelanau 
peninsula, and thereabouts. It is more common on water-sprouts than elsewhere. 
CHERRY CASE BEARER ( Coleophora pruniella Clem.) 
Michigan. Ray Hutson (June 13): The cherry case bearer, C. pruniella , is present 
at Manistee. One grower, on examining some apparently scorched twigs, found the 
the cherry case bearer was present and that the twigs were not scorched, but 
were injured by this insect. 
CHERRY LEAF' BEETLE ( Galerucella cavicollis Lee.) 
West Virginia. L. M. Peairs (June): The cherry leaf beetle was reported abu t 
at Franklin June 3. 
