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PLANT BUGS (Miridae) 
Connecticut. P. Garman (September 23 ) : Evidence of the work of various 
species of plant "bugs is conspicuous on peaches and pears, and t some 
extent on apples. Damage is general ove_ the State hut worse in a few 
localities. T.ie species involved are Lygus prat ens is L. , He o lygus in- 
vitus Say, N. que real oa Knight, and possibly 17. caryae Knight. Damage 
in many orchards is worse near brushlandj hut may he distributed, thou_ 
less severe, over the entire planting. 
SAN JOSE SCALE (Aspidiotus perniciosus Corns t.) 
Hew York. R. E. Horsey (September): Quite abundant on two small shrubs. 
of glossy buckthorn ( Rhamnus f rangula ) with crawling young on August 29. 
IToted on cotoneaster on August 2f . 
Illinois. W. P. Flint (September 20): The San Jose scale is decidedly on 
the increase in north-central and northern Illinois. 
PEACH 
ORIENTAL PEACH MOTH ( Graph olitha molesta Busck) 
Hew Hampshire, L. C. Glover (September 2k): The oriental 'peach moth has 
been doing some damage in peach orchards in the southern part of the 
State. Unofficially, it has been known to be present in New Hampshire 
for at least 2 years. The exact date of entry is unknown. 
Hew York. P. J. Parrot t (September 27): About 6 percent of the fruit was 
infested in western New York. 
Ohio. T. H. Parks (September 28): Larval injury was very light to our 
heavy crop of Elberta peaches in central and northern Ohio. Later 
varieties now maturing are not seriously damaged. Quinces are almost 
all ruined now by the insect. 
Georgia. 0. I. Snapp (September 20): Of 20,222 Elberta peaches cut oper- 
and examined, only l was found to be infested with the oriental fruit 
moth. These peaches were harvested from an orchard in which no control 
measures against the moth were used. The insect is of ho economic im- 
portance in this region. This favorable situation is attributed to the 
absence of a host for the hibernating broods of larvae. 
Missouri. H. G. Butler (September 11): An oriental fruit moth emerged t 
morning from a larva collected on August 22 in a peach twig in an or- 
chard l/2 mile northeast of Saint Joseph. Typical twig injury is fairly 
abundant in this orchard, but as Anarsia lineatella Zell. larvae we^e 
also present, rearing was required to establish the presence of G. 
molesta. 
