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this spring ,as a large number of the adults passed the winter successfully. 
: ite in April a flight of beetles was observed about Albany, N. Y. 
outbreak evidently did not develop as anticipated, as no further reports 
were received during the season. 
SAT JOINT i Omi. 
Towards the end of March the wheat joint worm ( Harmolita tri tici 
Fitch) was reported as seriously damaging wheat in Stanley Hounty, North 
Carolina. In southern Illinois it was much less abui nt tl n it has been 
for several years, the only records being from a very few western and 
southwestern counties of the State and a single infestation in Hancock 
County of 23 per cent. 
IT STEM SAWLY. 
The wheat stem sawfly (jephus cinctus L crt.), which was the most 
serious pest of the year in Saskatchewan in 1926, when it caused a loss of 
:j1 2, 000,000, went into winter quarters in enormous numbers. During 1926 
it spread westward until it now covers one-third of the wheat-growing 
areas of Alberta. A survey this year (1927) indicated that about 6 per 
cent of the grain wa,s infested in Manitoba, and but little serious damage 
was done over the rest of the infested territory. 
CODLING MOTH. 
The codling moth ( Carpocapsa pom one 11a L. ) in the Middle '..'est 
during April promised to be as serious as it was last year, a very high 
percentage of the larvae having passed the winter successfully. Pupation 
was generally later than normal from Pennsylvania westward across central 
Missouri. During June the situation was much more favorable, the insect 
being slightly more numerous than usual in the Last-Central States and 
becoming less troublesome from Illinois westward. 
In the Pacidic Northwest the situation at this time was v3r^ r favorable. 
During August the infestations in the South Atl< ntic aid East-Central 
States were serious enough to indicate heavy damage oy the later broods. 
A similar situation prevailed in parts of Idaho and Colorado. Though 
comparatively well controlled in the Eastern States the codling moth was 
prevalent enough to occasion comment on the quantity of wormy fruit offered 
to the export trade. In many sections of the eastern part of the United 
States late frosts so reduced the apple crop that the Initial codling- 
moth populations will be materially lower next spri ig. 
ORIS PH. 
The oriental fruit moth (. _w__ n sic .. j ) ppe red earlier 
th : 1 st ye r in the Fort Valley section of C-ec a ~, and the first adult 
moth was observed en Febru injury bee..... not ice. Lie boat 
the first of April ... full-grown larvae of the iirot brood //ere observed 
on the 1 th of the moi . . The pe o -he second generaticj s r ched 
during the first /e€ in ;, fid during this fc was reported 
for the first time from Holly springs, Miss. Luring June the insect < 
recorded for the first time from the west-central p it of Georgia 
