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Among the unusual insects attacking the peach during the year may 
be mentioned Colaspis favosa Say, which defohated peach trees in 
one locality in northern Georgia. Hippodamia convergens Guér. 
and Diabrotica 12-punctata Fab. have both been noticed eating the 
petals of peach blossoms and also eating into the base of the blooms. 
Apparently nothing but the relative scarcity of individuals prevented 
serious damage by these two species. J/thycerus noveboracensis 
Forst. did considerable injury by girdling apple twigs in Gilmer, one 
of the mountain counties. 
Throughout the apple-growing section of northern Georgia, em- 
bracing practically all of the State north of the thirty-fourth par- 
allel, Carpocapsa pomonella Linn. is universally distributed. The 
prevalence of this insect is doubtless largely responsible for the lack 
of interest taken in commercial apple culture, and but few growers 
have taken the pains to systematically combat it. 
Balaninus carye Worn. did serious damage to pecan nuts near 
Thomasville during 1903. While also doing considerable damage 
during 1904, this species did not appear to be nearly so abundant as 
in the vear previous. 
In a number of localities in extreme southern Georgia Lyphantria 
textor Harr. occurred in considerable numbers upon pecan trees. 
From the summer generation of larve adult moths were reared 
August 31. Sinoxylon basilare Say has been found working in the 
trunks of young pecan trees in southern Georgia; and at Vinings, in 
northern Georgia, Chrysochus auratus Fab. did much damage in a 
small pecan grove by defoliating the trees. | 
During the latter part of the summer Alabama argillacea Abn. was 
generally distributed and abundant over that part of the State south 
of the thirty-second parallel, and destroyed practically all of the “ top 
crop ” of cotton. Upon late cotton the damage from this insect was 
very pronounced. The Paris green and lime mixture wherever 
applied effectually checked the pest. 
Heliothis obsoleta Fab., while generally distributed, was not as 
destructive as in 1903. An unusually large amount of injury was 
done by this species very early in the season, the cotton squares in 
many fields being liberally punctured during June. Only three or 
four counties suffered excessively from this insect later in the season. 
Chalcodermus eneus Boh. was quite destructive to young cotton 
plants in Randolph and Terrell counties during May. This beetle 
makes numerous punctures in the tender buds and leaf-stems before 
the cotton is large enough to commence squaring, these punctures 
causing the leaves, and frequently the entire plant, to wilt and die. 
Upon some small areas fully 50 per cent of the cotton plants were 
killed and an average damage of 25 per cent occurred in a few fields. 
The first appearance of the beetle in early spring is, so far as has 
