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PEAGH 
ORIENTAL PRUIT MOTH ( Grapholitha. moles ta Eusck) 
Illinois. W, P. Plint (Pelruory 23); According to reports of examinations in the 
peach orchards of southern Illinois, fruit huds on peach are practically all 
killed with the exception of those in orchards in the southern Illinois co\xn- 
ties of Pulaski and Massac. This will prohahly h.ave some effect on the popu- 
lation during the coming summer. 
Mississippi'; C. Lyle (Pehruary 23); Injured peach twigs sent in from Sunflorver 
County eorlv in Novemher 1939 • 
PEACH BORER ( Cono'pia exit iosa Say) 
Mississippi. C. Lyle (Pehruary 23); Reports of injury to peach trees received fro» 
Clarke and Copiah Count itfs in December 1939» from Monroe County in Pehrvu 
ary. 
Nebraska. M. H, S’’’enk (Pehruary 20); Reported as attacking peach trees in Otoe 
County on December 4, 1939* 
PLUM GURCULIO ( Conotrachelus nenuphar Hbst.) 
Georgia, 0. I. Snapp (January 30) ; Live adults found in Johnson and Bermuda 
grasses today at Port Valley after a minimum temperature of 9^ 0^ January 
27, and a dailv minimum range of 9° to 20^ P. during the 6 days previous. 
CHERRY 
CHERRY SCALE ( Aspidiotus forbes i Johns. ) 
West Virginia, G. H, Geissler (Pehruary 26): Specimens of cherry with scale on 
them were collected at Kearneysville, Jefferson County, in the northerns tern 
corner of the State, (Det. by H. Morrison,) 
PEAR 
PE^IR PSYLLA ( Psylla pyricola Poerst.) 
Washington. J, P, Cooper and E. J, Newcomer (December 7» 1939) 5 Hibernating adult# 
not hard to find in Spokane County in trash at bases of trees, and under 
loose bark and in 'cracks in bark on pear trees as high as S or 10 feet above 
the grov.nd. 
PLUM 
A MITE ( E-gpal ops is mali Ewing) 
California, L. M, Smith (Pebrunry 15) : Pound hibernating in the hiberne.cu.la of 
SRilonota pcellana D. & S. on President plums in the vicinity of San Jose, 
Peund in the silken cases which had been abandoned by the budmnth larvae, 10 
to 20 frequently being found in a single case. Also collected on A'ugust 29, 
1939, on the lower surfaces of leaves of Prench prune at Cloverdale. Only 
