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NATURE STUDY AND LIFE 



east of the Mississippi River during the last quarter of a 

 century, have lived to produce a crop of fruit without suf- 

 fering more or less from this dreaded borer." ^ 



I chanced recently to visit a young peach orchard set out by a 

 man with the view of raising peaches for market. The trees were 



Fig. 78. Peach-Tree Borers, Male and Female 



Female with broad yellow band across abdomen. 



(Photograph by Slingerland) 



only three or four years old and had begun to bear finely. As he was 

 showing me about, I pointed to a mass of borer chips and gummy 

 exudation at the base of one of his trees and asked him if he knew 

 what that meant. He replied that he did not. I then dug out the 



1 M. V. Slingerland. " The Peach-Tree Borer," Btilletiti lydy Cornell 

 University Agricultural Experiment Station, Ithaca, N.Y., 1899. 



