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some of the trees have been almost completely killed by it* Inspector.- 
F. A. Smith, Senatobia, K. D« Peets, Brookha^en, and M. L. Grime.-:, 
Meridian, report medium to severe damage to plum and peach trees in their 
districts, 
LESSER PEACH. BORER ( Aegeria pictipes G. & R. ) 
Kansas. H. R. Bryson (March 2R): Peach trees p].anted as an intercrop in 
one orchard in northeastern Kansas showed the lesser peach tree borer 
to be abundant on March 1, 
PLUM 
PEaR TPlrflFS (T aenioth rips inconsequens Uzel.) 
Oregon. S. C. Jones (March 21): On March 14 the first prune thrips was 
found on the first breaking buds of prune trees near Independence. On 
March 10 a few thrips were found in prune buds picked near Roseburg and 
thrips were also emerging in prune orchards at Forest Grove. 
California, S. Lockwood (March 9) > A survey of the pear and plum orchards 
in the Sacramento River Valley south of Sacramento was made yesterday and 
no pear thrips was found. 
RASPBERRY 
BLACK VINE TEEVLL ( Brachyrhinus sulcatus Fab.) 
California. L. M. Smith (March 15): The black vine weevil occurs in con- 
siderable numbers in raspberry patches in the Santo Clara Valley. At 
the present time approximately 70 percent of the larvae have pupated. 
GRAPE 
GRAPE LEAFHOFPER ( Irythroneura comes Say) 
California. S. Lockwood (March 25): In the Coachella Valley, Riverside 
