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Pennsylvania T. L. Guyton (Hay): The plum curculio is very abundant. 
Delaware 
Mar/land 
Virginia 
Georgia 
L. A. Stearns (May 21): Emergence from hibernation is 
considerably delayed. The first emergence from hibernation 
at Camden occurred April 18. The insect appears to he 
much less abundant than it was last year. 
P. D. Sanders and C. C-raham (May 25): The spring emergence 
is later than in 1930 and on the Eastern Shore is much light- 
er. It is felt that both the short peach crop last year and 
the hot, dry condition of the soil during the pupation period 
were unfavorable for curculio development. Jarring records 
at Salisbury f\ 9 30 showed: May 10, 6.7 curculio per tree and 
in 1931 on May 13, only 2.65 per tree. The season is only 
about seven days late as judged by the stage of the trees. 
Jarring records on curculio indicate heavy invasion of the 
orchards about the 16th at Hancock. Most of the records of 
heavy infestations come from jarred apple trees. 
C. R. Willey (May 25): The plum curculio is very abundant 
at Richmond and vicinity. Practically all plum and peach 
trees examined were infested, some very badly. 
H. G. Walker and G. E. Gould (May 25): The plum curculio 
is moderately abundant at Norfolk. 
C. H. Alden (May 20): The spring brood of the plum curcu- 
lio infestation is light at Cornelia. 
0. I. Snatrc (May 8): This season's infestation at Port 
Valley is the lightest in 13 years; 18,523 peach drops were 
cut on May 7 and 8, and only 402, or 2.2 percent, were in- 
fested with larvae. The infestation last year ranged from 
10.5 to 23.5 per cent for the first collection of drops, and 
in 1929 the infestation varied from 42.7 to 55.0 per cent 
for the first collection. The unusually light infestation 
this year is attributed to the dry weather during the pupa- 
tion season in 1930, the effectiveness o.f the arsenical treat- 
ments in 1930 when very little rain fell between the several 
applications, and the jarring of the trees to catch the 
adult curculio s, more of which was done last year than ever 
before. The first larva to reach maturity this season left 
a poach drop on May 7. This is 10 days later than the first 
record last year when only one brood occurred. (May 19): 
7,012 peach drops were cut on May 13 and of these only 116, 
or 1.6 per cent, were infested. On May 19 another collection 
of 7,678 drops was cut and of these only 70, or 0.9 per 
cent, were infested. The figures further substantiate my re- 
port on May 8 that the curculio infestation in the Georgia 
peach belt is the lightest since 1918. Very few growers in 
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