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carried in a screened insectary inside a tight wooden container 
in the insectary, and in turn protected by glass containers 
and by corrugated ^aper in which the cococns were spun, showed 
100 per cent°mortality. The official temperature at Urbana^ 
ras -21° F. At Carbondale, Fhere the temperature was -15° F., 
there was also a complete kill of the oriental fruit moth. 
S. C. Chandler (February 20): In Pulaski County where the 
minimum temperature was -10° F. , at one time during the winter, 
72 per cent" of the larvae of the oriental fruit moth wintering 
on the trees were killed. In Jackson County, 50 miles farther 
north, where the temperature reached -15° F. , 89 per cent of 
those wintering on the trees ^ere killed. In both sections 
the kill was higher in the branches than on the trunks. Most 
of the larval parasites found had also been killed. To date 
no examinations of those hibernating on the ground have been 
made. Last winter's examinations showed that 40 per cent of 
all larvae in the orchards winter on the ground. One hun- 
dred per cent of the larvae being carried over winter in 
corrugated cardboard strips in outdoor cages were killed 
at Carbondale. 
Missouri 
L. Haseman (February 24): The oriental fruit moths 
collected at Caue Girardeau. 
r ere 
Mississippi 0. M. Chance (February 21) 
scarce. 
The oriental fruit moth ii 
N. L. Douglass (February 22) 
moderately abundant. 
The oriental fruit moth is 
Delaware 
Ceorgia 
PLUM CURCULIO ( Conotrachelus nenuphar ffbst.) 
L. A. Stearns (February 19): Two broods of the plum 
curculio developed in southern Delaware during 1929 and the 
insect went into hibernation in unusually large numbers. 
0. I. Snapp (February 19): The weather at Fort Valley 
has not yet been sufficiently cold to bring about mortality 
of many adult plum curculios in hibernation. The minimum 
to date is 18.9° F. , which, according to hibernation records, 
is not cold enough to kill many curculios in hibernation. 
C. H. Alden (February): "Jo adults have been observed so 
far at Albany, but there was a heavy infestation in peaches 
last season. The insect is moderately abundant at Cornelia 
and Thomas ton. 
Mississippi 17. L. Douglass ( February 22) 
abundant . 
The plum curculio is very 
