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PEACE TWIG 30SE?. (.mar si a lineatella Zell.) 
California S. Lockwood (July 27): The peach twig borer has teen more com- 
mon than ordinarily experienced in the Sacramento Valley counties 
where canning and fresh peaches are raised extensively. Abandoned 
or neglected orchards hrsjobaoii largely responsible for this in- 
creased population. 
PEACE BORER ( Sanninoidea cxitiosa Say) 
Nov York IT. Y. State Coll. Agr., Wo oily News Letter (August): During the 
week preceding August 22 the peach-tree borer' was entering peach 
and prune trees in Niagara County. (Abstract, J.A.E.) 
North Carolina Z. P. Mo teal f (August): The peach borer is very abundant. The 
lesser peach borer, ■■a jr.i'i metroes G. & G. occurs on flowering peach. 
Georgia 0. I. Snapp (August 20): The first adult of the season emerged 
on August 6. This is later than usual. Oviposit! on began on 
August 12 which was 12 days later than the first oviposition 
last year. (August 20): Oviposition is now fairly heavy. One 
female deposited 475 eggs in 24 hours. Eggs have not yet begun 
to hatch,. 
C H. Alaen ([August 22): The peach borer is scarce in Cornelia. 
A few moths arc row emerging. 
Mississippi C. Lylc and assistants (August): The poach borer was reported 
as very abundant in Union, Meridian, Tate, and Panola Counties. 
(Abstract, J.A."E.) 
State Plant Board, Press Release (August 3): According to re- 
ports the peach-tree borer and the San Jose scale are doing con- 
siderable damage to "poach and plum trees throughout the State. 
Utah %, P. Knowlton (August 18): The poach- tree borer is damaging 
untreated peach trees in Boxclder and Davis County orchards. 
PLUM CURCULIO ( Conotrachclus nenuphar Hbst.) 
Massachusetts Mass. Pruit Growers' Association, The Pest Situation (August l): 
The curculio stands out in front .among inscpt pests . In many 
orchards it has survived the spray program used, with considerable 
succesf . This was in large measure due to interference by weather 
conditions at the time of special applications for its control. 
Delaware L. A. Stearns (August 3): In the insoctary the first mature 
second-brood grubs commenced to leave peaches. Source of both 
Bridgcvillo and Cancl. n material, Bridgcvillc . (August 24): 
Second-brood grubs of the plum curculio are emerging from peaches 
in the southern two-brooded section of the State. 
