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New York. N. Y. State Coll. Agr. News Letter (April): The first nynphs 
wore observed on April 19 and 20, in the lower Hudson Eiver Valley. 
In western New York eggs are quite numerous "but no hatching has "been 
reported. ' 
PEAR TKRIPS ( Tacniothrips inconsequens Uzel) 
0rcg6n. D. C. Mote (April): Adults began emerging in snail numbers the 
Week of March 7 in the vicinity of Corvallis and Salon. 
RASPBERRY 
' RASP3ERRY FRUITWORM (Byturus unicolor Say) 
New York. N. Y. State Coll. Agr. News Letter (April): The American 
raspberry beetle was observed in Orange and Ulster Counties on April 
20. 
RASPBERRY ROOT BORER ( Bcnbecia narginata Earr.) 
Washington. W. W. Baker (April 19): B : . narginata began to break hiber- 
nation in the Puyallup Valley between April 7 ancL 11. A snail per- 
centage of the larvae were still in the hibcrnacula on April 19 * 
ROSE SCALE (Aul_acaspis r o sae Bouche) 
Ohio. E. w. Mendenhall (April): The rose scale is quite bad on s one of 
the raspberry plantations in Knox County. 
SNOWY TREE CRICKET ( Oecanthus niveus Deg.) 
Ohio. E. W. Mendenhall (April): The snowy tree cricket is abundant on 
raspberry plantations, especially in grass and weeds along fence 
rows. 
BLACKBERRY 
SOFT SCALE ( Coccus hosperidun L. ) 
Arizona. C. D. Lebert (April 21): A rather heavy infestation of soft- 
brown scale was found on 3oysenberry and "Blackberry plants in the 
PhOenix-Mosa area. 
CRAPE 
GRAPE LSAPIIOPPER ( Erytliror.eura cones Say) 
Utah. G. F. Knowlton (April 12): Grape loafhoppers, E. cones ziczac 
Walsh, were active during the warn part of the day, near piles of 
Virginia creeper leaves at Logan. Overwinter survival seen s to have 
been rather large. 
