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PINE NEEDLE MINER ( Recurvaria milleri Busck) 
California, J. M. Miller (January 2): Surveys conducted during September 
1934 nave shown that the needle miner greatly increased the extent of the 
infestea areas in the high Tuolumne watersheds in the Yosemite National 
Park during the flight season of 1933* These new epidemics will undoubted- 
ly extend the areas of dead lodgepole pine forests within the park, ana the 
forest cover on the intensively used camp ground areas around the Tuolumne 
meadows is now threatened, 
PINE NEEDLE SCALE ( Chionaspis pinifoliae Fitch)' 
New York, R, E, Horsey (February 25): The live, purplish eggs of the pine 
needle scale ere now to be found under the overwintering scale on mugho pine 
at Rochester. There is no evidence of winter mortality. This scale is 
well established at Rochester, and is fairly common on mugho, Austrian, and 
Scotch pine, 
Nebraska, LI, H. Swenk (February 19 ) *• Reports of spruce trees being attacked 
by the pine leaf scale were received from Phelps and Sioux Counties on 
January 10 and February 14, respectively. 
INSECTS AFFECTING GREEN fiO'USE 
AND ORNAMENTAL PLANTS 
AZALEA 
COMMON RED SPIDER ( Tetranychus telarius L.) 
Louisiana. W, E. Hinds (February 25): Red spiders were very abundant on many 
plants before the January freeze. Most adults and nymphs appeared to have 
been killed by the freeze, but egf.s were not killed. During the past 
month eggs have hatched and produced a fairly heavy infestation, especially 
on azaleas, 
EAI-fBOO 
BAMBOO SCALE ( Asterolecanium bambusae Bdv.) 
Mississippi, C. Lyle (February 23): a medium infestation on bamboo was re- 
ported from Biloxi, in Harrison County, on January 2. 
DEODAR 
DEODAR WEEVIL ( Pissodes d eoderae Kopk,) 
Mississippi. C. Lyle (February 23): Inspector M. L. Grimes reports light to 
medium injury to Cedrus deodara at Meridian, 
