Sudlersville, Queen Annes County. Insect Report This is a new county record. Trimmings A GELECHIID MOTH (Coleotechnites thujaella) Winter Golf? Visited with Ken Vo- WTT's compilation of insect prob- Maryland: Heavily damaged a plant- orhies of the Columbine Country lems occuring in turfgrasses, trees, ing of arborvitae at Easton, Talbot Club a couple of days before Thanks- and ornamentals throughout the County. This is a new State record. country. giving regarding his record system NANTUCKET PINE TIP MOTH which is featured in this issue of (Rhyacionia frustrana) WTT. He told me that his crews Virginia: Damage heavy to young were busy mowing greens and that Turf Insects loblolly pine throughout Hanover he had watered the day before. Said County. Severe on loblolly pine at that play was heavy and that more A BILLBUG location in Alleghany County. None people should become interested in (Sphenophorus venatus vestitus) at 2 plantations in Rockingham California: Medium in hybrid Bermu- County. winter golf in the Denver area. dagrass in nursery at Bellflower and A WALSHIID MOTH Sounded much better than the Cleve- heavy in tifgreen Bermudagrass in (Periploca nigra) land weather of the moment. golf course at Pasadena, Los Angeles * • * County. Found on Bermudagrass at California: Light on juniper at Fres- Huntington Beach and Fullerton, no County, and medium at Redding The Toronto Daily Star recently re- Orange County, for a new county area, Shasta County. These are new county records. vealed that 1,834 elms stricken by record. Dutch elm disease will have to be AN ARMORED SCALE GRANULATE CUTWORM removed from parks, streets and (Feltia subterranea) (Phenacaspis cockerelli) private property in the Toronto area Florida: All stages severe on all 3 California: Medium to heavy in lawns Chinese fanpalm (Livistona chinen- next year — 61 percent more than at Gilroy, Santa Clara County. Worm sis) in nursery at Keystone Heights, this year. But who's to pick up the weather and moisture favored con- Clay County. This is a new Florida tinuation of infestation this season. tab? The provincial and Federal Department of Plant Industry host governments recently refused to sub- A MARCH FLY record. sidize the tree removal program, ac- (Dilophus orbatus FLORIDA RED SCALE cording to the newspaper. In the California: Populations continuing in (Chrysomphalus aonidum) many locations statewide. Heavy in past the dead elms were disposed of Florida: All stages severely infesting under the now-defunct winter works turf at Oakland, Alameda County, 50 philodendrons in nursery at Lock- and in lawns of Stanislaus County. hard, Orange County. This is a new program, with the senior govern- THREE-CORNERED ALFALFA HOPPER Florida Department of Plant Indus- ments paying about half the cost. (Spissistilus festinvs) try host record. • * * Arizona: Heavy numbers overwinter- A WEEVIL On the other side of the coin is Mil- ing in ditch banks next to Bermu- (Nemocestes incomptus) waukee. This city recently dis- dagrass seed fields at Yuma, Yuma Adults heavy in rhodo- County. California: covered a way to dispose of logs dendron nursery stock at Fort Bragg, from trees killed by Dutch elm dis- BERMUDAGRASS MITE Mendocino County. (Aceria neocynodonis) ease, reduce air pollution and make a profit — all at the same time. Fro- California: Adults heavy in Bermu- Tree Insects dagrass at Irvine, Orange County. ebel Wood Exports, Glendale, will buy the logs from the city, strip the RHODES-GRASS SCALE GIANT BARK APHID (Antonina graminis) (Longistigma caryae) infested bark — which contains the California: Adults medium on Bermu- Oklahoma: Heavy on scattered post beetles — and export the wood to dagrass in nursery at San Diego, San oak and blackjack oak trees in Okla- Holland, where it will probably be Diego County. h o m a County. Ranged up to sev- used for manufacturing furniture. eral hundred per cluster on small branches. Currently the city absorbs the cost Insects of Ornamentals of transportng the logs to a dump CERAMBYCID BEETLES site where they are burned, adding AN APHID Texas: Oncideres pustulatus caused much damage to miñosa trees at to the area's air polution problem. (Euceraphis mucida) Froebel has agreed to pick up the Maryland: One specimen found at Houston, Harris County. Many Me- gacyllene robiniae adults on mes- logs at the cutting sites and pay the Monkton, Baltimore County. This is quite trees in Throckmorton County. a new state record. city $1 to $2 a *log ,* accordin• g to size. BRONZE BIRCH BORER ENGRAVER BEETLES (Agrilus anxius) Speaking of Dutch elm disease and (Ips ssp.) Minnesota: Generally counts in nur- Virginia: Killed 20 loblolly pines at sery-grown birch trees remain about Milwaukee shipping logs from trees Accomack County location and 3-4 same as last year. Infested average killed by same to Holland, someone trees in each of 3 Caroline County of 2 percent of trees. State average is bound to retort that the Dutch are locations. increased by infestations up to 10 only getting back what they started A SAP BEETLE percent in isolated fields. in the first place. But let's set the re- (Conotelus mexicanus) EUROPEAN ELM SCALE cord straight. The disease was so California: Found in rose at Orosi, (Gossyparia spuria) named because Dutch plant patholo- Tulare County, for a new county rec- New Mexico: Heavy on American elm ord. gists were the first to study it. No at Santa Fe, Santa Fe County. one is sure where the elm-killing dis- FALL CANKERWORM ease originated, although Asia would (Alsophila pometaria) be a good bet because resistant-type Michigan: Males abundant at Livings- Compiled from information fur- ton County blacklight station. Fe- nished by the U. S. Department of elms are found there. The disease Agriculture, university staffs, and males on tree trunks and farm out- WTT readers. Turf and tree special- appeared simultaneously in Holland, buildings during day. ists are urged to send reports of France and Belgium at the end of insect problems noted in their areas AN EPIPASCHIID MOTH to: Insect Reports, WEEDS TREES World War I and then spread to the AND TURF, 9800 Detroit Ave., (Tetralopha asperatella) Cleveland, Ohio 44102. States in 1930 via Carpathian elm Maryland: Collected from oak near burl from France.