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New York 
0. G. Babcock (May 9): 
the "black plum aphid. 
Many complaints have come in regarding 
W. E. Emery (May 28): These aphids are doing quite a" tit .of damage, 
causing the plums to turn yellow and fall. 
RASPBERRY 
A T/EBWORM ( Cr ambus sp. ) 
C. R. Crosby (June U): The larvae eat the smaller shoots off near 
the surface "but do not seem to "burrow very deeply. The raspberry 
plants were set out in a field plowed this spring. It was an old 
meadow. 
ROSE SCALE (Aulacaspis rosae Bouche) 
Indiana J. J, Davis (June 20): This scale is very abundant in many sections 
of southern Indiana, in many cases being largely responsible for 
the death of shoots before fruit matures. 
RASPBERRY FRUITV70RM ( Byturus unicolor Say) 
Connecticut B. H. Ualden (June 23) : Injury is largely confined to the St. 
Regis in ITew Haven County; fully as abundant as in an average year. 
New York 
New York 
Maine 
C. R. Crosby and assistants: In Chautauqua County one berry patch 
was found badly infested by this pest, which was observed abundantly 
in only two locations in Ulster County, though plentiful in general. 
It is very abundant and destructive in one patch in Silver Creek, 
and at Sodue in Wayne County the beetle '"was injuring over 80 per 
cent of the blossom clusters in one planting* 
RASPBERRY SAWFLY (Monophadnoides rubi Harris ) 
C. R. Crosby and assistants: The raspberry sawfly is plentiful 
in all plantings in Chautauqua County, considerable damage being 
done. 
RASPBERRY MAGGOT ( Phorbia rubi^ora Coq. ) 
Mr. J. M. Mosher reports this insect as seeming to attack younger 
canes than the cane-borer beetle. In this case the canes are about 
18 inches high. The infested canes are quite numerous. Maggots 
are still very young. 
GRAPE 
ROSE CHAFER (Macrodactylus subspinosus Fab.) 
Massachusetts A. I. Bourne (June 23): From Middlesex County, E. R. Farrar, 
of South Lincoln, reported under date of June 18 that the rose 
chafer is present in approximately 10 per cent greater amount 
