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I 17 SECTS A P I S ! I H G G-REE IT HOUSE A UP 
E H A M E U I A L PLANTS A IT D L A W IT S 
ABBOR VITAE 
APHID (Aphiidae) 
SoTuvth ' Dakota K. C. • Severin (February 19): Aphid eggs have passed the 
winter very successfully. TTe have no important fruit-tree 
aphids to speak of in South Dakota, but we have plenty of 
other aphids which give us considerable trouble, and these 
seem to have passed the winter very successfully. 
AIT APHID ( Dilach us thu.jafolia Theob.) 
Ohio E. W. Mendenhall (February 7): The 'American arborvitae 
used as understock for junipers, were badly infested with 
the arborvitae aphid. The infestation was in one of the 
greenhouses in Springfield. 
Mississippi H. Dietrich (February 25): This aphid was general on 
arborvitae at Lucedale all v.inter, in a few cases evidently 
in destructive numbers. 
Arizona C. D. Lebert (February 25): The arborvitae aphid was 
very numerous on stems of arborvitae in a local nursery 
in Phoenix, February 24. I1sn.y plants coated with honey 
dew and black smut. 
A SCALE ( Cocci die) 
Washington Wm. W.Baker (February 5): Cuttings of Thuja were sent 
in from ChehaLis "07 an inspector which were heavily infested 
with an immature scale similar to our common lecar.ium but 
smaller in size and differing , somewhat fi a it. These cut- 
tings were .taken from shrubs growing out of Joors and the 
young scales were quite active when the cuttings arrived. 
RED SPIDER (T o.trarych.U 8 telariu s L.) 
Virginia M. P. Jones (March 3): Evergreens heavily infested with 
eggs of the red spider were collected at Lynchburg. 
CAMELLIA 
CAMELLIA SCALE (Lepidosa] has c.-m ell l:.e Boisd.) 
Mississippi E. Dietrich (February 25): The camellia scale is rbun- 
dant on Caanollia jaeorica at Lucedale. 
