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SILVER LEAP MITB ( Phyllooontes cornutus Banks) 
Pennsylvania 3. Y7. Frost (September 27) . "The silver leaf mite is abundant in 
Cumberland County and a little infestation '"as noticed in Adams County. 
To my knowledge this is the first time it has been recorded from 
Pennsylvania." 
COTT Oil \!<mi ( Alabam a argil lace a Hubn. ) 
iiohigan R. H. Pettit (September 15). "This insect has been fairly aoundant at 
Provement and Holland attacking the fruit of peaches." 
CHERRY 
CHERRY MAGGOT ( Rhagoletis cin^ulata Loew) 
Hew York C. R. Crosby and assistants. The annual survey of the commercial 
cherry crop indicates the following percentages of damage by this 
insect: Columbia County, 1 to 2 per cent; Niagara County, 40 per 
cent on unsprayed trees; Orleans County, 3 per cent; Genesee County, 
1 per cent; \7ayne County, traces. 
PLUM CURCULIO ( Conotrachelu s nenuphpr Hbst.) 
Jew York C. R. Crosby and assistants. The annual survey of the commercial 
cherry crop indicates the following percentages of damage done by this 
insect: Orleans County, 5 per cent; Albany County, 1 per cent; 
Genesee County, 4 per cent. 
PLUM 
PLUIJ CURCULIO ( Conotrachelus nenuphar Hbst.) 
Jew York C. R. Crosby and assistants. The annual survey of the commercial plum 
crop indicates the following percentages of damage done by this insect: 
Wayne County, 10 per cent; Genesee County, 8 per cent; Orleans County, 
5 per cent; Niagara County, 5 per cent; Nassau County, 20 per cent; 
Albany County, 15 per cent; Columbia County, 10 per cent. 
PECAN 
PECAN NUT C;JSE-BEARER Ucrobasis h ebescella Hulst) 
i'ississippi R. \7. Harned (September 10). "The pecan leaf case-bearer is abundant 
this year in southern Mississippi.' 1 
PALL TJEBY/ORM ( Hvphantria cunea Drury) 
Georgia 0. I. Snapp, Bureau of Entomology (September 8). "This insect is caus- 
ing severe defoliation in some sections of the Albany pecan district. 
Apparently it is more severe on trees in the lowlands* " 
