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ORIENTAL ERUIT MOTH ( Grarpholitha molesta Busck) 
Connecticut. P. G-arinan (August): Peaches are "being attacked about the* same as 
la.st year, 
Nev; York. N. Y, Stfite Coll, Agr. Hews Letter (Au,gust 19)j Second brood in 
Niagara County, western New York, is damaging fruit much more than usual. 
Georgia, 0, I, Snajjp (Augu.st l): Of 10,5^9 Elberta jpeaches carefully ex- 
amined S5, or 0.8 percent, were found to be infested with larvae, as com- 
pared with 0.24 present in 1939* These peaches v;ere harvested from- a 
commercial orchard near Port Yalley.in which no control meo.sures had been 
enforced. Absence of host for the maturity of hibernating broods of larvae 
is -responsible for light infestation in the commercial orchards at Fort 
Valley. 
Mississippi. C, Lyle and assistants. (August 26): Specimens of injured peach 
twigs received from Lowndes County, Moderately light infestations reported 
generally from the Meridian area and in Madison County. Continued attacks 
on peach trees rer^orted from the northeastern counties. Larva taken from a. 
sand pco.r in Greene County, 
Texas, F. L. Thomas (August 6): Second generation observed causing considerable 
damage in peach orchards in Nacogdoches, Montague, Ellis, and Milam Counties 
R, K. Fletcher (August I 3 )! Causing severe dam.age to peach and plum in 
Harrison, Fisher, Erath, and Milam Counties, 
LESSER PEACH BORER ( Conopia pictipes G. & R. ) 
Missouri, L, Ha5cma.n (A.ugust 20): Reported as unusually heavy in some peach 
orchards in southeastern Missouri, 
PLUI^ GURCULIO ( Cono trachelus nenuphar Hbst.) 
Delav'are. L. A, •Stearns (August 23 ): Infestation generally light on peach at 
Bridgcville, Peak of entrgence o-f adults of su'imer brood occurred on July 
16 . 
Michigan. R. Hutson (August 23 ): Baraage common on ]peaches in southern Michigan, 
Georgia. 0;, I, Snapp (August Ip): First year since I 923 that the Elberta peach 
crop in Georgia wa.s not subjected to at least a partial second-brood attack. 
Entire crop of Georgia peaches was harvested before the deposition of second- 
generation eggs. Mature second-generation eggs v;ere not found in the bodies 
of first-generation feraales until July 26 . First mature eggs of second- 
generation vfere found in the body of a female that emerged from the soil 
on June 20, the period betv/een adult emergence and na,t\irity of first 'eggs 
of second genera.tion being 36 days, A number of females began to deposit 
second-genera.tion eggs during the first week in August, Adult population in 
central Georgia peach orcliards is lighter now than thal of an average year. 
