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APPLE CURCULIO ( Tachyptsrellus guadrigibbus Say) 
L. Haseman (May 2<±): In west-central Missouri apple curculios 
were active during the week of May 13 and collections made on 
the 20th contained freshly laid eggs, 
EUROPEAN RED MITE (Paratetranychus pilosus C. & F*) 
A, I. Bourns (May 21): European red mites were found in this 
section (Amherst) to he hatching on the 6th to 8th of May* This 
pest is hearing out the early-season predictions of being fully 
as abundant throughout the State as it has ever been. 
Philip Garman (May 23): Mites passed the winter well and hatched 
in considerable numbers in New Haven County. 
Co R* Crosby and^ assistant s, abstract from Weekly News Letter, 
N, Y u State College of Agriculture, May 14,1928: Red spiders 
were hatching quite generally over the State during the week 
of May 7 to 14. Reports have been received from Ontario, Wayne, 
Monroe, Niagara, Orange, Columbia, and Suffolk Counties, 
Wo S„ Abbott (M a y 12): Many eggs found at Oakton. Eggs were 
found in this orchard in 1926,~but .none in 1927. 
Excerpt from Review of Commerce and Industries for the month 
of April 1928, Consul Erik W. Magnuson (May 7): Consul Willson 
at Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, states that Bulletin No, 4 of the 
Nova Scotia Fruit Growers Association announces that insect 
development is nearly three weeks earlier than last year, and 
that action against red mite and bud moth should be advanced 
accordingly, 
PEAR 
PEAR PSYLLA (Psylli a pyricola . Foerst.) 
Philip Garman (May 23): The pear psylla is appearing in abund- 
ance in some orchards at Wallingford, 
C» R« Crosby and assistants, abstract from 'Weekly News Letter, 
N* Y. State College of Agriculture, May 14,1928: The pear psylla 
is apparently abundant throughout central and eastern New York. 
' laying is fairly well completed and nymphs could easily 
be found the second week in May. Reports have been received from 
Orange, Ulster, Onondaga, Erie, Genesee, Ontario, and Monroe 
C'OVi bi . [Zu R« Crosby (M a y 12): Eggs have been deposited abund- 
antly generally throughout the State, but in the western part 
of the Lake Ontario fruit bolt they are not quite so abundant 
8lsi '.acre. 
