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Mississippi N. L. Dou^rlass and M. L. Grimes (March 18, 21): Large 
"brown aphids are found on pecans in moderate at'^JiJi dance at 
Meridian, 
OBSCIJrlE SCALE ( Cnrysomphalus o lprcurus Comst, ) 
Georgia _^ J. 3. Gill (March 25): The o"bsc-are scale is occasionally 
found on oak trees around Albany, hut not in ver;:,-'' injurious 
numbers. In all infestations observed, the beneficial fungi 
were present and appeared to be important factors in keeping 
the scale under natural control. 
Mississippi C. L;^le (March 21): C. obscuras was found on pecan from 
Gary, Februarj'- 26. 
Arl'iansas P. D. Sanders (March 10): The pecan scale was doing consid- 
erable damage to three large pecan orchards I inspected in 
• Pu.laski Coiinty, I also noted 500 trees heavily encimsted on 
a farm in Holly Grove. I visited three pecan growers located 
15 miles east of Little Rock where IjOOO trees were heavily 
. . ..infefjted; many branches are being killed at Alexander farms. 
CITRUS 
FLOEIDA RED SCALE ( Chrv'somplialus aonidum L. ) 
Florida J. r. Watson (March 21); The Florida red scale is more 
abundant tliaii it l?as been for several years past, owing to 
the unusually warm weather for several winters. 
CALIFCRITIA RED SCALE ( Chrysomphalus aurantii Mask. ) 
Arizona C. D. Lebert (March): The California red scale a^ain made 
its appearance on a small lemon tree at Mesa, where a heavy 
infestation was treated last year. Just a few scales were 
found on the new wood. All other trees were apparently clean. 
A rather heavy infestation was found March 10 on a small mixed 
citrus planting at Yuma. The grove was cwt back and treated 
March 15. 
COTTOITY- CUSHION SCALE ( Icerya purchasi Mask. ) 
Georgia J. b. Gill (March 25): Many complaints of cottony-cushion 
scale infestations h-ave been received from scattered locali- 
ties in the southern part of the State, where the insect 'has 
been doing much damage to ornamental plsaits and Satsuma orsmge 
trees. We have been furnishing interested growers ajid i)arties 
with Vedalia beetles from our Albany, Georgia, station. In 
most cases ver}/ good control is being obtained through the 
colonization of the Vedalia on the infested properties. 
