FRUTT PUXCTrRFJ) OR [NFESTED. 
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determined for various fruits and localities by actual founts of fruit. 
Typical data of this kind are furnished in the tables following. Not 
all fruit punctured is worthless, though its market value is reduced. 
In Table LXXIV are given data on amount of fruit infested by 
larvae from specified trees in several localities in Georgia and in Penn- 
sylvania, including both drop and picked fruit. On account of the 
difficulty of determining punctures in the peach, only actual infesta- 
tion was noted, mostly of fallen fruit. 
Table LXXIV. — Percentage of infested peaches for the season, various localities. 
Season. 
Variety. 
Trees 
used. 
Fruit from ground. 
Localities. 
Tested. 
Sound. 
Total. 
Mavfield. Oa 
1937 
1908 
1906 
1906 
1906 
1906 
Elberta 
Red River 
5 
4 
12 
5 
8 
4 
328 
167 
231 
2,522 
831 
467 
. a 
1,485 
941 
171 
Mar^hallville, Ga 
634 
Belle of Georgia 
Miscellaneous 
469 
2 58 
North East. Pa 
Do . . 
Sneed 
Hills Chili 
3,463 
1.002 
Total and average per 
4,672 
3.541 
- 
Variety. 
Trees 
Used. 
Fruit from trees. 
Total 
Per- 
centage 
Localities. Season. 
In- 
fested. 
Sound. Total. 
• iuiai 
fested. so,m,L 
infested 
for 
season. 
Mavfield, Ga 
1907 
1908 
1906 
1906 
1906 
1906 
Elberta 
518 
100 
264 
35 


113 
2,264 
895 
489 
2.200 
Ms 
631 846 
342 71.21 
Marshallville, Ga... 
Mvrtle, Ga 
Arlington, Va 
North East, Pa 
Red River 
Belle of Georgia. 
Miscellaneous... 
Sneed 
4 
12 
8 
4 
2.3'-4 
1.159 
524 
2.200 
A A 
267 
495 
28 
2,522 
831 
2.731 
1.133 
1,984 
3.141 
1.019 
8.91 
30. 40 
24.04 
44.53 
Do 
Hills Chili 
44.91 
Total and av- 
erage per 
cent of in- 
917 
7,726 
10. 350 
35.06 
As shown in Table LXXIV, the percentage o( infestation to peaches 
in the several localities varies from 8.91 to 71.21 per cent of the total 
crop produced, with an average of 35.06. These figures represent the 
actual proportion of the crop destroyed, since it includes only infested 
fruit. The total number of infested fruits from the ground, 4,672, 
exceeds notably that infested on the trees, i. e., 017. The percentage 
of drop fruit infested is 56.87, as compared with 11.86 per cent from 
the trees at picking time. During seasons (^ light crops practically 
all of the fruit may become infested when small and drop, though 
during years of full crops the thinning out by the beetles is not 
especially important. 
In Table LXXV is shown the condition of the drop fruit for the 
season from 120 Elberta peach trees at Siloam Springs. Ark., during 
100S. The fruit at picking time was by mistake of orehardist 
