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in -the orchards where control v. as net satisfactory last 
summer. Winter mortality is very low, as would be expected. 
Dregon D. C. Mote (February 24): !"o codling roths have pupated 
as yet in the region of Corvallis. 
TS1TT CATERPILLARS ( Mn.l«co goaa spp.) 
Tashingtoii W. Y7. Baker (January and February)! The egg masses of 
two caterpillars, Mai aco soma disstria Hbn. and M. pluvialis 
Dyar, arc very scarce on fruit trees and other deciduous 
trees this season. While making observations at Puget, 
Fuyallup, Sumner, and Bellevue, and on Bainbridge Island 
not a single egg mass was found where during the past three 
seasons they were abundant, except that during the winter 
of 1929-30 the eggs of •pluvial is were rather scarce. 
SPRING CANKER 703!.! ( Palcacrita vernata Peck) 
2amas H. R. Bryson (February 20): Emergence of the spring canker 
worm began on February 17 and has not reached its peak at 
this writing. 
FALL CANKER WORM ( Alsoxfcila nometaria Harr. ) 
Kansas K. R. Bryson (February 20): Fall canker worms began 
emerging at Manhattan January 15 and have continued until 
the present time. Die peak of the emergence was rea.chcd on 
January 29, the period of greatest emergence being between 
January 23 and February 7. 
California S. Lockwood (February 25): luring the month, it was found 
that the fall canker worm eggs were more than normally 
abundant in cherries in Placer County. 
EUEOFEAH REE MITE ( Earatetranychus rd losus C. & F. ) 
Kew Hampshire P. R. Lowry (February): European red mite eggs are very 
common in many orchards in southern New Hampshire, 
Pennsylvania h. ii. Hodgkiss (iebioary 24): A survey ox the eastern 
Pennsylvania counties indicates that the infestation of the 
European red spider is rather spotty, although it is suffi- 
cient to warrant special attention except in two counties, 
Delaware and Chester, where oil spray will not be recom- 
mended on account of the unusually low percentage of eggs. 
