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DZ OPAP CEDAR 
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DEODAR WEEVIL ( Piss odes deodarae Eopk.) 
Mississippi. C. Lyle assistants (July): R. 3. Deen (July 17): Deodar weevils 
have been more abundant this year than in the past three years. Several 
Cedrus deodar a , both large and small , at Tupelo have "been killed. 
DOGWOOD : • • 
PSCAIJ SESIA ( Aegeria scitula Karr.) 
Alabama. J. M. Robinson (July 20): This borer is very abundant at Birmingham and 
Huntsville, where it was destroying nursery stock. 
GLADIOLUS 
GLADIOLUS THRIPS ( Taenio thripa gladioli M. and S.) 
Connecticut. E. H. Walden (July '24): This thripa is very abundant where conns 
were planted without being treated. It is appearing in many plantings where 
corms were treated. 
Hew York. P. J. Parrot t (July 24): The gladiolus thripa is moderately abundant 
and becoming injurious in the field. 
Delaware. L. A. Steams (July 22): It was abundant and causing severe injur;- at 
Smyrna and generally over the State, June 28. 
District of Columbia. 1. A. Noal (July 25): The thrips is very injurious to 
gladiolus at 335 Webster St., N.W. 
Wisconsin. E. L. Chambers (July 24): For the first time we are receiving complaints 
from commercial gladiolus growers of serious losses to their gladiolus. 
Several wholesale houses in Milwaukee have recently written for information 
to distribute to their growers on the control of ' this pest. 
Iowa. C. J. Drake (July 27): The gladiolus thrips is doing serious damage in 
large gladiolus plantings in the vicinities of Des Moines, Hampton, Council 
Bluffs, Mitchellville, Nevada, Ames, Altoona, and Colfax. This insect was 
found for the first time in Iowa in 1932. 
fjssy willow 
BEAKED WILLOW GALL ( Phyto-pha/ra rigidae 0. S.) 
Virginia. II. P. Jones (July 9): About 75 per cent of the twigs of one pussy 
willow tree ( Sal is discolor ) at Lyon Park, Va. , were infested. Many galls 
were noticed on other pussy willows in the vicinity of Washington, D. C. (Pet. 
C. T. Greene.) 
