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PEACH BORER ( Aegeria exitiosa S&y) 
Pennsyl- S. W. Prost (fall of 1921). "Paradichlorobenzene has been placed about 
vania trees of several orchards in Adams as v/ell as other counties in Pennsyl- 
vania. An examination of the trees in Adams County on November 1st 
showed no evidence of any of the chemical being left." 
Ohio H. A, Gossard (Larch 18). "A large number of inquiries, two or three 
dozen of them during the past two months., indicate great interest in the 
use of paradichlorobenzene for the peach-tree borer." 
LESSER PEACH TREE BORER (A egeria pic tines G^ 6b R. ) 
Ohio R. A. Gossard (L'srch 18). "The lesser peach-tree borer was the subject 
of a few inquiries ana observations in peach orchards, which are frequent- 
ly cultivated and, therefore often scarred and bruised, showed that such 
orchards are quite run down with thic pest as compared with orchards not 
cultivated so often.' 1 
PLUL1 
PLUli GALL-IILTE ( Eriophyes phloeocoptes Nal . ) 
Ohio H- Ac Gossard (;:arch 16). "On March 15 the plum gall mites had become 
active and were creeping over the outside of the galls in dozens and were 
sv/arming within by hundreds." 
RASPBERRY 
STRIPED TREE CRICKET ( Oecanthus nigricornis Walk. ) 
Ohio K. A. Gossard (torch 10). "^7e have received dozens of specimens of 
orchard twigs and the canes of small fruits injured bv the tree cricket. 
Reports of such injuries have exceeded the average." 
BLACKBERRY 
FLORIDA FLOWER TERIP3 ( Franlvlinieli a b isninosus pro.ie ctus \7atson; 
Florida Jeff Chc:ffin (II; rch 18). "Thrips are very numerous and will, no doubt, 
do quite a bit of damage to commercial blackberry plants in the vicinity 
of Bradentown (Uanatee County). This is the first ye'r I have noticed 
this pest." 
CURRAIST 
IMPORTED CURR^ET BORER ( Aeger ia tjpulil'ormis Clei-ck) 
Hew York C. R. Crosby (December 30, 1921). "Infested canes were receive from 
East Hampton today." 
