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Contrary to the conditiona dan.. . rch, 1926, when fruit-aphid 
eggs were so extremely scarce, eggs were reported normally abundant 
throughout the East-Ce outli e stern States with the exception 
of New £ork State where they wore still reported as less abundant thaa 
usual this pas J : spring. L 1 etching ii the inchester section 
of Virginia about the middle oi flarcl . About the same time hatching was 
observed in Illinois and Missouri-. During April these insects were re- 
ported as generally more prevalent .than last year throughout Ne\ Ir.gland 
id subnormal in the East-Central States. Towards the end of March hatch- 
ing was observed quite generally throughout southern and central Pennsyl- 
vania. In the Willamette Valley, Oregon, hatching was somewhat later, 
occurring about the first week in April. The rosy apple aphid ( .nur aphis 
roseus Baker) was not unusually abundant over the Middle Atlantic and 
East-Central States. Aphids, other than fruit phids, acre unusually 
abundant over a vary wide territory, extending well into Canada, In most 
cases these outbreaks were associated with a delayed spring and cool, 
wet weather. During July the infestations of aphids on ornamentals were 
very conspicuous in the eastern part of the United States. 3y the first 
of August, the aphids had rather abated, and but little trouble was re- 
corded the. remainder of the summer . 
SAN JOSE SCALE. 
throughout New England the preval ence of the San Jose scale 
(A spidiotus parniciosuj Comst.) during the winter of 1926-27 was not at 
all alarming. This condi-tibn also prevailed over the Last-Central States. 
From Maryland southward to South Carolina . ,.: >ral increase was being 
observer. In Georgia bhis was very decidedly checned by the twice-stabbed 
lady beetle, which occurred in abnormally large numbers in 1926. • In the 
East-Central States conuitxons remained about as they were in 1926. In 
IVest -Central States the insect was not considered of much economic 
importi'-nce . These conditions of subnormal abundance of the scale pre- 
vailed throughout the season over the eastern fruit belt. Late in the 
season, however, extremely warm weather in southern Indiana caused a heavy 
increase in the scale populations in many orchards, — ■* 
LA. 
During the year no rem i . ■ developments of the anomala 
(Anomala orientalis ' ) were recorded. 
.? T COT,. SCALE. 
The citricola scale ( . . dococcu s citricol yle; increased 
in Tulare County, 
MEALYBUGS - 
estations of P. Lybu 'seudococcus Green) have been 
