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senting an infestation of about percent, as compeared with 21 per- 
cent last year. Infestation in the Georgia Peach Pelt is now heavier 
than that of 1940, a.s '-ps anticipated, owing to the single "brood in 
1940. First pupation of the season at Port Valley was recorded in 
the field on May 15* 
T. L. Pissoll (May 19) : Infestation light in treated peach orchards. 
At Cla.rkston, DeKalb County, 15 trees jarred on May 13 and 6 trees at 
Experiment, central Georgia, on May l4 without finding a single cur- 
culio. Crop unusually heavy. Drops Doing picked up at Odessadale, 
Meriwether County, owing to presence of larvae. 
Mississippi. C. Lyle and assistants (May 24) S Reported that 65 percent 
of the fruits of wild plums rnd untreated poaches are injured in the 
northwestern counties. Damage observed in Chickasaw, Grenada, Holmes, 
Monroe, Prentiss, and Tallahatchie Counties, in the northern part of 
the State, 
Missouri, L, Has ©man (May 26): Despite a threat of serious infestation 
a month ago, there is comparatively little evidence now of damage to 
stone fruits in central Missouri, 
ORIEHTAL PRUIT MOTH ( Grapholithe, nolesta Dusck) 
Connecticut. ?. G arnan (May 22): Egos seen in the field in Hew Haven 
County on peach, about 3 weeks earlier than normal. 
Hew York. H, Y. State Coll, -“-gr. Hews Letter (May 19 ) : Pirst observed 
during the week on infested poach twigs in Rockland County, eastern 
Hew York, 
Delaware. L. A. Stearns (Mag/ 24): Pirst twig injury on peach by the 
first brood noted on May 8 ; injury general by May 21, 
Maryland. C. Graham (May 2): Pirst observed entering peach twigs today 
at Hancock, 
Virginia. A, M. Woodside (May): Flight of spring-brood moths over in 
Albemarle and Augusta Counties, Some la.rvac almost full grown. Many 
more first-brood larvae than normal found in the fruits of peach, 
probably owing to the hot, dry weather , which has checked the growth 
of twigs . 
Georgia, T. L. Dissell (May 15) ; Peach shoots infested at Griffin and 
Woolsey, the first ones being found on April 27, 
Mississippi. C. Lyle (May 24): Injured perch twigs received from Greene, 
Jones, Lafayette, and Yalobusha Counties, Damage to peach twigs 
reported from Ghickasaw, Grenada, Holmes, Montgomery, Monroe, and 
Tallahatchie Counties. 
