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FOREST AND SHADE TREE INSECTS 
SPRUCE 
Spruce Gall Aphid ( Adelges abietis Kalt.) 
New York. C. R". Crosby and Assistants report this insect as badly infesting 
Black Hills spruce, attacking three or four year old seedlings, as 
well as older trees at Brentwood on Long Island. 
MAPLE 
Silver Maple Leaf Mite (Phyllocoptes quadripes Shim.) 
New York. E. P. Felt. (May 23). "Maple bladder galls fully developed and 
locally abundant on soft maple at East Schodack, Rensselaer 
County." 
M. D. Leonard (May 11-16). "One tree with galls very numerous on 
the leaves at Baldwinsville, and another at Elmira." 
Chaitophorus iyropiota Kess. 
New York. E. P. Felt (May 19). "Females are scatteringly present on Nor- 
way maples at Albany, yhis plant louse is somewhat abundant every 
year and occasionally is very injurious to Norway maples." 
Drepanaphis acerifolii Thos. 
New York. E. P. Felt (May 19). "Adults were scatteringly present on soft 
maples at Albany. This aphid is a very prevalent one, although 
rarely markedly injurious*" 
Maryland. 
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New York. 
New York. 
North 
Carolina. 
Chaitophorus aceris L« 
E. N. Corey (May 24). 'More abundant than usual at College Park 
and reported as very numerous at Annapolis. n 
V/oolly Maple Leaf Scale (Phenacoccus acericola King) 
E. P. Felt (May 23). "Reported as common on most of the sugar 
maples at Oneonta, Otsego County." 
Cottony Maple Scale (Pulvinaria vitis L.) 
E. P. Felt (May 23). "Present on soft and silver maples at One- 
onta." 
Terrapin Scale (B ecanium nigrofasciatum Perg.) 
' E. P. Felt (May Zff. "Black banded scale abundant on maples at 
Cambridge, Washington County, there being numerous eggs." 
Green-Striped Maple Y/orm f Anisota rubicuada Fab.) 
F. Sherman* (April 16). "Adults sent frost lioclcleaaa^rg County, 
Seems like early appearance for this species." 
