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C-eorgia. C. H. Alden (March 2^): San Jose- scale continues to be abundant on 
peach and apple trees at Cornelia, in northeastern Georgia, especially 
in unsprayed or poorly sprayed orchards. 
Illinois. W. F. Flint (March 23) • There has apparently been no increase in 
San Jose scale mortality during the past month. 
Missouri. L. Haseman (March 2'-0 : Observations of San Jose scale in central 
and northeastern Missouri indicate a rather light carry-over of live 
scale. In southwestern Missouri there is an increased demand for dor- 
mant-spray materials, indicating that considerable spraying will be done 
before buds open. 
Idaho. R. W. Haegele (March 19): Scale counts from several districts in 
southwestern Idaho showed from 70 to 85 percent winter mortality. Low 
temperatures in January ranged from -20° to -28 F. , for a few hours' dur- 
ation on only 1 day. which probably accounts for the relatively high 
survival. 
SCURFY SCALE (Chionaspis fur fur a Fitch) 
Virginia. W. S. Hough (March 18): Scurfy scale very abundant in many apple 
orchards throughout northern Virginia. 
EUROPEAN RED MITE ( Parate tra nychus pilosus C. & F. ) 
Vermont. H. L. Bailey (March 26): Eggs reported moderately abundant in 
southern Vermont, with considerable percentage of them dead or para- 
sitized. 
Massachusetts. A. I. Bourne (March 12): The red mite was unusually abundant 
in all orchard sections late in the summer of 1936. Growers find that 
although there was an unusually heavy deposit of eggs last fall, in many 
instances many of them have been killed, Apple twigs containing the over- 
wintering cocoons of a small neuropteron, Conwentzia hageni Banks, are much 
more numerous than for many years-, and are especially abundant in the 
orchards where the red mite was very numerous last fall. I do not know 
whether there is any association between the neuropteron and the red mite. 
PEACH 
PLUM CURCULIO ( Conotrachelus nenuphar Hbst.) 
Georgia. 0. I. Snapp (March 19): Plum curculios have not yet appeared in 
numbers from hibernation at Fort Valley, although full bloom of peach 
trees is pact. They are usually disseminated throughout the orchards 
by full bloom. Peach trees began to bloom unusually early this year, 
and with the curculio being held in hibernation later than usual, as 
compared with the development of the fruit, Georgia peaches may escape 
an attack by the second brood. 
C. H. Ald'.-.n (March 2^-0 : Jarred 20 trees in Elberta. peach orchards 
in northeastern' Georgia on March 23 but caught no curculios. Orchard 
in full bloom. 
