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A red spider destroyed 50,000 acres of wheat in Cimarron • □ Texas 
Counties, Okla., during April and May. 
FHUIT APHIDS 
During the winter months of 1929-50 fruit aphid eggs seemed to be 
below normal in abundance in the Eastern States, and these insects were 
not nearly so abundant in this region as they vrere last year. Sggs of 
the apple grain aphid ( Rho-aalo si-niua -runifoliae Fitch) vrere retorted as 
quite plentiful in parts of Missouri. The weather and ene-.ies apparently 
checked the outbreak. Sfegs started hatching in Delaware, central Illinois, 
and Ohio the last of March. The rusty plum aphid ( hystoron ura setariae 
Thos.) appeared in threatening numbers in the Fort Valley district of 
Georgia and in southern Mississippi during May. This species was also 
recorded at that time from Nebraska and Utah. 
SASEKSKIY KttJIT '7021: 
The raspberry fruit worn ("3 y turns uni color Say) was somewhat preva- 
lent in the Hudson hiver Valley and also in western New York. It was 
quite injurious in southwestern Michigan and the St. Paul district of 
Minnesota. 
"In Washington State beetles were much more numerous this spring than 
formerly near Puyallup, hut the actual amount of infestation in the 
lo ;anberries was less than it has be en in the past three years. An. esti- 
mate- of approximately 15 -^er cant loss occurred in the croT" this season. 
The infestation in the raspberries war. perhaps ".ore general than oofore, 
but owing to the fact that the larvae seldom stick in the berries when 
picked, little attention was paid to then in this cro-; 1 .' 1 
M3DIT5E2ANSAN JESUIT PLY 
"The only findings of the Mediterranean fruit fly ( Cor-- titis car! tat a 
VJied. ) in the continental United States during the past fourteen months 
were as follows: One infested sour orange containing four larvae about 
10 wiles west of Orlando, Fla. , ^n November 16, 1929; two infested s->ur 
oranges containing ten larvae at Orlando on March -i, 1930; and two pupae 
in the soil under a fallen orange at St. Au ustine on July 26, 1930. 
M anvhile, from 300 to over 600 inspectors have been searching for infes- 
tation and iu in the post year have turned in for identification over 
600,000 specimens, almost all of then Dipt em found in ripe or decayed 
wild wad cultivated f raits," 2 
1 '..'. U. Baker, Washington Agricultuai Hc-crimcnt Station, 
2 Plant Quarantine and Control Administration, U.S.D.A. 
