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SAN JOSE SCALE ( Asm diotus perniciosus Comst.) 
Delaware. L. A. Stearns (August S3): The San Jose scale is mote abundant on 
fruit than in previous' years. 
Indiana. G. E. Marshall (August 26): A severe infestation of San Jose scale in 
an old apple orchard at Bedford was almost completely destroyed by a fungus 
disease during July and the early part of August. 
Illinois. W. P. Flint (August 19): Owing to the fact that many peach and apple 
orchards did not receive, a complete scale spray during the past season, the 
San Jose scale is now appearing in these poorly sprayed orchards and causing 
a moderate amount of damage to the fruit in apple orchards. 
Michigan. R. Hutson (August 22): The San Jose scale is very abundant. 
Wisconsin. E. L. Chambers (August 22): The San Jose scale has a number of new 
locations in the infested counties along Lake Michigan and the south-eastern 
part of the St.ate. 
Mississippi. C. Lyle and assistants (August): The San Jose scale is generally 
abundant, as high as 90 per cent of the peach trees being killed where con- 
trol is not practiced. (Abstract, J.A.H.) 
APPLE MAGGOT ( Rhagoletis pomonella Walsh) 
New York. N. Y. State Coll. of Agr., Weekly News Letter (August): During the 
third week in August apple maggot flies were abundant in orchards in Ulster 
and -Essex Counties. In Ulster County it was believed there would be more 
infested apples this year than last. (Abstra.ct, J.A.H.) 
APPLE CURCULIO ( Tachypterellus quadrigibbus Say) 
Vermont. H. L. Bailey (August 22): The apple curculio is reported as abundant 
in swell and vicinity. 
New York. IT. Y. State Coll of Agr., Weekly Hews Letter (August 15): New genera- 
tion apple curculios are still emerging in Essex County. In some cases con- 
siderable injury is being done by this new brood. 
COMMON BED SPIDER ( Tetranychus t elarius L . ) 
Washington and Idaho. Ortho News, Calif. Spray-Chemical Corporation (August 6): 
In the Yakima district, particularly in the lower va.lley, and in the Wenat- 
chee district, red spiders and two spotted mites are nea.rly as troublesome 
as they were in 1931. Since the hot dry weather has made its appearance, the 
injurious effect of the spiders and mites has become more noticeable. 
Nevada. Agr. News Service, Uni. of Nevada Agr. Ext. Div. (August): The red spider 
has been infesting strawberry patches at Reno. 
. EUROPEAN RED MITE ( Parate.tranychus mlosus C. & E.) 
Connecticut. P. Garman (August 22): An abundance of natural enemies, such as 
thrips, have tended to keep down infestations of the European red mite. 
