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in Jackson County. Some are still hatching at Columbus. Some eggs of 
syrphid flies are present among these. 
Kentucky. W,- A.- Price (April 24): Green fruit aphids are very abundant, 
also rosy aphids. 
Missouri. L. Haseman (April 24): Fruit aphids are scarcer than usual but 
cool weather may enable them to build up. We have taken no rosy aphids 
as yet. 
Kansas. H. R. Bryson (April 24): The apple grain aphid has been reported as 
very abundant on apple trees in the Arkansas River Valley in the vicinity 
of Oxford. 
Idaho. C. Wakeland (March 30): All forms of orchard aphids are hatched; 
seme of these appeared the last, of February. Infestations of the woolly 
apple aphid ( Eriosoma lanigera Hausm.) are the most severe we have ever 
experienced. (April 25): Aphids are very abundant in apple orchards 
throughout the State. Extensive spraying is being done. 
Oregon. D. C. Mote (April 24): The woolly apple aphid (E. lanigera ) is more 
abundant in the Willamette Valley than it has been for many years. 
SAN JOSE SCALE ( Aspidiotus perniciosus Comst.) 
New Hampshire. L. C. Glover (April 24): Very high mortality of the San Jose 
scale has been reported from Hollis, Wilton, and Kensington. The specimens 
inspected in the laboratory show less than 5 percent survival. 
Connecticut. W. E. Britton (April 24): The San Jose scale is scarce, about 
75 percent dead. 
New York. E. P. Felt (April 23): The San Jose scale has suffered heavy 
winter mortality at Freeport, L. I. 
W. E. Blauvelt, N. Y. State Coll. of Agr. News Letter (April 9): Examina- 
tion of over 5,000 young, black individuals show a high winter mortality. 
In Tompkins, Ontario, Yates, Genesee, and Monroe Counties the mortality 
was 97 to 100 percent. In Ontario and Yates Counties the low tempera- 
tures in February ranged from -24°to -30°F. As low or lower temperatures 
occurred in Onondaga, Livingston, Wyoming, Chautauqua, and most of Erie 
County, and it is probable that a similar high mortality of scale occurred. 
In Orleans and most of Niagara County the mortality in most of the samples 
examined was from 80 to 86 percent. The temperature in these areas was 
reported as about -15°to ~20°F. in the zones near the lake and about 
-24° in the middle and southern parts. In a small area in the northwestern 
corner of Niagara County, around Youngstown and extending south along the 
Niagara River, the temperature reached only 10 to 12 degrees below zero 
and the mortality of scale was around 50 percent. The Hudson Valley 
samples of scale from Ulster and Columbia Counties showed a mortality of 
from 80 to 90 percent. Examination of scale on currants from Orange 
County showed a rather high survival. 
