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he was first "bothered "by these "beetles in 1025, They '-ere not 
noticed during 1926. This year they have appeared in larger 
numbers than t"'o years a 50. These beetles have "been tentatively 
identified "by I.lr. J. I.i, Langston as Anoma la undulata . ? 
PEAR LEAF BLISTER MITE (Sriophyes nyri Pgst, ) 
T. D, Urbahns (February 17): The pear leaf blister mite has 
been very destructive, causing a loss to pear growers ~hich 
would probably total somewhere near $100,030 for the different 
districts of the State. 
PEACE 
PEACH T77IG BORER (Anarsia lineatella Zell.) 
California T. D. Urbahns (February 17); The peach t^ig' 'borer is probably 
the insect of greatest economic importance in California in 
view of the immense production of canning and shipping peaches. 
There are two and three generations in different parts of the 
State, and the destructiveness of this insect is extended 
throughout the entire interior valley district as well as southern 
California. 
PLUM 
CLOVER HITS ( Br yob i a praetiosa Koch) 
California T„ D # Urbahns (February 17): The clover mite, kno^n locally as 
the almond mite, is especially destructive on almonds and prunes 
throughout the Coast districts and interior valleys of northern 
and central California. 
APRICOT SCALE ( Lecanium corni B ouche) 
California T* D. Urbahns (February 17): The brown apricot scale continues 
to develop in abundance on prune trees in most of the prune- 
growing districts and on apricots wherever they are gro^n through- 
out the State. Peach, pear, and plum trees also frequently 
become infested to the extent of requiring special control measures. 
PECAN 
FLAT-HEADED APPLE TREE BORER ( Chrysobothris femora ta Fab, ) 
Mississippi R. 7. Earned (February 5): A correspondent at Jackson wrote 
on January 29 as follows: "Last year we set out 1,000 pecan 
trees of which 146 died. On removing these for replacement it 
was found that although the tops were dead, the roots of the 
majority of them appeared to be alive and this kind of worm was 
