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with a black head eats into the buds and destroys them. When 

 the new shoots start, the borer eats into thera causing them to 

 wilt and decay. Many of the second brood of this borer eat into 

 peaches, causing a gummy exudation and ruining them for mar- 

 ket. The larvae that appear in the spring spent their winter in 

 little excavations which they made in the fall in the bark of the 

 trees. 



Remedies. — Early in the spring, just before the buds open, 

 spray the trees with lime and sulfur wash or with whale oil 

 soap, in the proportion of one pound to two gallons of water. 

 Fish oil soap, diluted once with water or kerosene emulsion, will 

 doubtless do the work nearly or quite as well as the lime and 

 sulfur wash. Many of the larvae may be caught under band- 

 ages used as for the Codlin Moth. 



Peach Borer (Sanninotdea exitiosa). — The yellowish white 

 borer commonly very destructive in peach trees is the larva 

 of a wasp-like appearing moth that lays its eggs on the trunks 



Fig. 35 — Peach borer; showing trunk of peach tree Injured near 

 surface of ground where gum and frass are mixed together. 

 a. — Male. b. — Female. 



