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E R U I T INSECTS 
APPLE 
APPLE APHIDS (Aphiidae) 
Virginia. W. S. Hough (March IS): Aphid eggs are not plentiful in apple 
orchards at Winchester, northern Virginia. Fall migration to the apple 
trees was greatly reduced last October and November, and about 10 per- 
cent of the winged forms at that time were rosy aphids ( Anuraphis roseus 
Baker) . 
Missouri. L. Haseman (March 2U): There seems to be a scarcity of aphid eggs 
on fruit trees throughout central Missouri. 
Idaho. P.. W. Haegele (March 19); Eggs of the rosy apple aphid (A. roseus ) 
are moderately abundant and starting to hatch in southwestern Idaho. 
Practically all the eggs seem to have svirvived the winter in south- 
western Idaho, where minimum temperatures in January ranged down to 
~2S° E. 
LEAEHOPPERS (Cicadellidae) 
Missouri. L. Haseman (March 2H): Winter mortality of leafhoppers at Columbia 
has been rather low, on the average not more than 10 to 20 percent. In 
northwestern Missouri they show 25 percent mortality in leaves and from 
50 to 100 percent mortality in bluegrass. 
CODLING MOTH ( Carpocapsa pomon ella L. ) 
Georgia. C. H. Alden (March 2h): Larvae still in hibernating cocoons at 
Cornelia, in northeastern Georgia, but there has been no pupation to 
date. 
Missouri. L. Haseman (March ?U): Lee Jenkins reports that in northwestern 
Missouri practically 100 percent of the overwintering worms are alive. 
In our breeding material at Columbia the winter mortality is very low. 
In southwestern Missouri the carry-over of worms is heavier than at any 
other place in the State. Generally overwintering worms are less numer- 
ous than they have been any year since the late 1920' s; but, with con- 
ditions now favoring a fair-to-heavy set of fruit, our growers will be 
obliged to spray thoroughly to prevent the insect from increasing in 
numbers in 1937* 
Idaho. R. W. Haegele (March 19): Only 10 percent of the larvae survived the 
winter in untreated corrugated paper bands on tree trunks in the south- 
western port of the State. Where the bands were covered with burlap 
sacks, 85 percent of the larvae were alive. The lowest temperature 
reading for the winter was -28° E. on January 21, at Parma, in the 
southwestern part of the State. 
