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Georgia. f. H. Clarke (August 4): At Woolsey and Thomas ton twigs have hardened 
and larvae are scarce in twigs. (August ll): At Newman the larvae are scarce 
in twigs; at Madras a good many larvae are found in twigs, and succulent 
growth is plentiful and has not hardened in this orchard. 
0. I. Snapp (August l): As usual, the fruit infestation was extremely light 
this year at Fort Valley. Of 6,480 peaches cut open and examined, only 24, 
or 0.57 per cent, were found to be infested. Of 12,217 Elberta peaches cut 
open and examined, only 17, or 0.14 per cent, were found to be infested. A 
total of 18,637 peaches were cut upen and examined in the Hiley and Elberta 
orchards, and the average percentage of them infested was only 0.22. 
Tennessee. G. M. Bentley (August): The oriental fruit moth is scarce all over 
the State. Apparently this is the time between broods. Early damage was 
heavy. 
PEACH BOEER (Aegeria exitiosa Say) 
New York. P. J. Parrott (August 23): The peach borer is very abundant. 
Georgia. 0. I. Snapp (August 21): Field mice and rats are again destroying many 
pupae at Port Valley. We are finding hundreds of empty fresh cocoons near 
the base of peach trees which these predators dug out of the ground or tree 
and then ate out the contents. In all probability the infestation will be 
reduced again by the activity of these predators. 
Tennessee. G. M. Bentley (August): The peach borer is very abundant in Knox 
County; plentiful in old orchards and scattered seedlings. 
PLUM CURCULIO ( Conotrachelus nenuphar Host.) 
South Carolina. Ir. C. Neetles (August 21): The plum curculio is doing less 
damage to peaches this season than usual. 
Georgia. 0. I. Snapp (August 2l): The entire peach crop at Fort Valley was 
harvested with an infestation less than that of an average year. This wa.s 
due to delayed emergence of first-generation adults from the soil in peach 
orchards as a result of d.ry weather in May and June. A few second-generation 
eggs were deposited as long as there were peaches in the orchards, but the 
majority of the new beetles will go into hibernation without having deposited 
any eggs this year. Therefore, oviposition in 1934 is expected to be heavier 
than it would have been had the first-generation adults deposited a part of 
their eggs in 1935. 
Ohio. -2. W. Mendenhall (August 24): The plum curculio is very abundant on plum. 
Wisconsin. C. L. Fluke (July 25): The plum curculio is very abundant; there is 
a very heavy infestation in Richland County. 
Arkansas. P. D. Sanders (August): Three curculio emergence cages, located in 
Howard, Pike, and Hempstead Counties in southern Arkansas, showed that the 
peak of first-brocd adults emerged from the soil between June 12 and 20. Since 
the bulk of the commercial peach crop was not harvested until late in July, 
a second brood occurred. The extremely dry we at he V prevailed -while the 
insects were in the soil and a thorough-going control program were apparently 
responsible for the slight damage this year. 
