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A MITE (Acarina) 
Virginia. A. M. Woodside (May 22): Heavy infestation in an untreated 
ample orchard near Fisher sville, Augusta County. 
PEACH • • ' 
PLUM CUKCULIO ( Cono trachelus nenuphar Ebst.) 
Massachusetts. A. I. Dourne (May 24): The very hot weather during the 
last week has brought plun curculio into the orchards, starting con- 
siderable activity. Records of jarring trees indicated that, be- 
ginning about May 21, more weevils were present in the orchards than 
all the previous collections combined. 
Connecticut. P. Garmon (May 2 2): Just appearing in most ap^le orchards 
in Hew Haven County. Damage light. 
Hew York. IT. Y. State Coll. Agr. Hews Letter (May): Hot very active in 
the lower Hudson Halley during the first part of May; more abundant 
now, and Manage to apples noticeable in Dutchess County, eastern Hew 
York. Adults are feeding and laying eggs on sweet cherries in Ulster 
County; in Orange County first observed on sweet cherries on May 5 
and on pears and apples on May o. 
Pennsylvania. H. M. ' Steiner (May 26): Eggs observed in small peach fruits 
on May 5 in Adams Count?/-. Dropping of fruits began on May IS and was 
well under way by May 24. First larva, matured from injured fruits on 
May 25. 
Delaware. L. A. Stearns (May 24): First overwintered adults collected by 
jarring peach trees at Dridgeville, Sussex County, on April 21; peak 
of abundance on May 9» 
Virginia. A. M. Woods ide (May 22): Large numbers of adults have entered 
peach orchards in Albemarle County. Oviposit ion did not begin much 
earlier thru last year. ITo larvae observed leaving: fruit, and many 
very small larvae still present. Some larvae in dropped fruits have 
been killed by the heat. 
Illinois. S. C. Chandler (May 19): Ja rring of poach trees at Garbondalo 
shows that infestation is considerably lighter than in 1939 > the last 
crop year. 
Georgia. 0. I. Snapp (May 21 ): First full-grown larvae at Fort Valley, 
central Georgia, left peach drops on May 1, 9 days earlier than, last 
. year, and the peak of emergence of larvae from drops occurred on 
May 10, 11 days earlier than last year. Crop is later than that of 
last year and the curculio is developing more rapidly than the crop. 
Therefore, mid-season varieties will probably be subject to a second- 
brood attack, although they usually escape it. A total of 2,257 lar- 
vae wore reared from 3/'*+ bushel of peach drops collected on May 6 in 
one of the most heavily infested orchards in this locality, ropre- 
