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Notes: Abstract: Resistance to pesticides has become the most important technical problem facing pest control programs; over $500 million are spent annually on pesticides; resistance to the insecticide lime sulfur was first noted in the San Jose scale insect, Aspidiotus perniciosus in 1905; this monitoring program is discussed.