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now developing in peaches. This pest is apparently not so numerous 
as last year. 
Georgia Oliver I. Snapp (May '20): The curculio infestation In the 
'Georgia Peach Belt is nor 7 lighter than it has "been at any tiros 
during the last eight ye-°rs at Fort Valley. The infestation 
has gradually "become lighter since the curculio suppression 
campaign ?/as started in 1921. Prospects no 1 " point to a Georgia 
peach crop of unusually fine quality this year. 
Missouri L. Haseman (May 21): This pest is beginning its " r ork but it seems 
less abundant than usual in the orchards of central Missouri. 
Cherries are showing some stings but peaches seem free as yet. 
ORIENTAL PEACH MOTH ( Laspeyresia molesta Busck) 
North Carolina R. W. Leiby and assistants (May 12): The first generation of adult 
began emergence today, reared from larvae collected in the field. 
Georgia Haliard De La Pare lie (May 7): The Oriental peach moth has not 
appeared in any appreciable numbers in the State of Georgia 
this year. I have recently ma.de a survey of the orchard at Macon 
which v?e used for experimental purposes last season, and did 
not find any of these insects. The same gratifying report comes 
from Mr. Oliver I. Snapp that the insect has not appeared in the 
Fort Valley district. Vfe have had ho reports of injury from 
any other section of the State. 
Oliver I. Snapp (May 20): Adults of the first generation are 
now emerging. Both twig and green peach injury have been found 
in the field at Fort Valley and Macon. The infestation is very 
light. 
CORN BJ\B T70RM ( Jieliothis ob sol eta Fab.) 
Georgia Oliver I. Snapp (May 12): The corn ear "rorm had practically 
destroyed the crop of peaches on U,000 young peach trees at Plains^ 
The grower had expected to harvest 1,500 crates from these trees. 
Hairy vetch had been planted in this orchard, and the grower 
failed to turn it under early enough. As the vetch became old 
the -orms crawled up the trees and devoured the green peaches. 
Their progress into other near-by peach orchards and cornfields 
-as halted only after deep furrows containing post-hole traps 
had been made. 
BLACK PEACH APHID ( Anur aphis per sicae-niger Smith) 
Mississippi R. 17. Harned (May 13) : A second complaint in regard to the black 
peach aphid in this State has been received from Scooba. A 
correspondent mailed, them on May 3t and reported that they -'ere 
taken from young trees pur chased in Febmary from a nursery 
in North Carolina. 
