Proliably the most oerious Injury caused by this insect occurlred in the 
vicinity of Douelasto^n, Long Island." (Loren B* Smith, Bureau of Entomology* 
U. S, D. A, ) 
APHiDS ■ 
• In the pacific North^vest the first aphids of tho season v/ero observed 
in Oregon , on March 19. The rosy apple aphid ( Anuranhis roseus Baker) in 
this region hatched about the middle of April. This early appearance, 
however, was not general, and aa a whole the aphids in this region were 
very scarce up to the first v/eek in May. This was true not only of the 
apple aphids but of those on peaches and plums. In the Bitterroot Valley 
of Montana late in the season the apple aphid (Aphis pomi DeG, ) became 
■unusually abundant < 
Seports received from the East lat« in April indicated that an unusually 
small number of eggs bad been laid last fall and subsequent reports con- 
firmed the prognostication of a year of unusual low aphid abundance* The 
only exception to this condition seems to have beai in the Fort Valley 
section of Georgia, where, in addition to the apple aphids, the rusty plum 
aphid (Hysteroneura setariae Thos,) v;as very injurious in this region 
and a very restricted though hca^/y infestation of peaches by the black 
peach aphid (^Vnuraphis persicac-nigor Smith) v7as reported from Vienna, 
Va. During late I/lay and early June aphids became decidedly more abundant 
in parts of Nebraska, These seem to have been the only outbreaks in a year 
of decidedly subnormal abundance of deciduous fruit aphids. 
The spiraea aphid ( Aphis spi ra.ec ola Patch) on citnis in Florida vzas 
abnormally scarce early in the season, being less abundant than in any 
year since 1933. Cool, backv/ard \7eather during April, hovrever, resulted 
in .a very rapid increase which continued through June. Heavy rains during 
July and. the hurricane in August practically terminated this outbreak. 
In California a'phids started their work early in, the season, attacking 
the new growth almost as soon as the buds broke« .. This led to an outbreak 
which necessitated very extensive spraying operations in the coastal citrus 
areas of southern California. Spraying and the very effective work of a 
syrphid fly and of an entoraophthorous fungus practically eliminated this 
outbreak by the middle of April, 
CODLING MOTH 
The season; as a whole was one of madsrate to low abundance of the 
codling moth ( Carpocapsa pomonella L.). Unfavorable weather conditions 
occasioned a winter mortality in the northern part of the eastern fruit 
belt that ran as high as 50 per cent of the overwintering larvae in central 
Illinois . Throughout the greater part of the East the season was decidedly 
late, the first pupa having been observed from a week to 10 dsys later than 
last year. This late emergence resulted in a reduction in the blossom 
injury and an increase in the side-worm injury. As a v/hole there was less 
damage this year than has been the case during the past two or three years 
over the greater part of the East, In the walnut -growing section of douthem 
California the codling moth is' evidently becoming an increasingly important 
pest. 
