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with the exception of two periods of short duration. During one 
of these the minimum temperature recorded was 18°F- and during the 
other 23°F. (April 15) : The appearance of beetles from hiberna- 
tion cages, with various types of hibernating quarters, to April 15 
inclusive was as follows: Bermuda grass 67 per cent, 6afc leaves 61.5 
per cent, Spanish moss 46 per cent, pine needles 36 per cent, sticks 
and trash 22.5 per cent, and bare ground (no hibernating quarters) 
6.75 per cent. (April 21) : The first larva of the season was found 
in peach on April 18, which is several week3 later than last year. 
This is undoubtedly due to the very cool spring, which has held back 
the development of the fruit and also retarded the appearance of the 
adults from hibernation. 
Jarring records show that the curculio is much less abundant to 
date this year than last, and there is an enormous reduction as 
compared with 1921. The results of the three years of the curculio 
suppression campaign are now becoming very evident. 
Louisiana T. H. Jones (April 4): The freeze of I'arch 20 killed all fruit and 
bloom. Few eggs were noted today in fruit that has set since that 
date, and 1 adult was observed. (April 14) • Fruit containing 
small larvae is common on trees today, but only a few "drops" have 
been noted . 
TWELVE-SPOTTED CUCUMBER BEETLE ( Diabrotica 12-puncts+a 01 iv.) 
Georgia 0, I. Snapp (March 3l): These beetles are feeding considerably on 
peach blossoms, especially where the trees are near a garden. Darrfcgo 
has also been noted to the young terminal leaves of year-old pear 
and peach trees . 
Wm. F. Turner (April 12): Very abundant in some orchards in Jasper 
and Morgan Counties, feeding on foliage; no real damage as yet. I 
fear severe injury to corn later. 
SAN JOSE SCALE ( Aspidiotus perniciosus Corns t.) 
Georgia 0.1. Snapp (April): Crawlers of the San Jose scale have been 
collected from peach trees near Fort Valley each month during the 
past winter. This proves that in the latitude of central Georgia 
some of the scale insects pass the winter in the full-2;rown stage. 
PEACH AND PLUM SLUG ( Eriocampoides amvgdalina Rohwer) 
Louisiana T. H. Jones (April 4): The larvae of this sawfly did considerable 
damage to peach foliage at Baton Rouge last year. Adults have been 
noted to be common in the field today, resting on peach foliage, and 
what are apparently egge are common on the undersides of leaves. 
CHERRY 
TERMITES ( Reticuliterrres f iavipes Kol.) 
Nebraska M. H. Swenk (April 16): The larger roots of several 3-year-old 
cherry trees which died last sumrer were being mined by termites in 
Franklin County - a rather unusual instance of insect injury that 
came to notice from March 10 to April 15. 
