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"belt, while u^ to the third week of March no adults >een seen in 
Delaware and Virginia and it was not until the middle of April I - t the 
first adults vere observed in this region. This is extremely late for 
the Atlantic Seaboard, as adults emerged from hibernation about March 7 
in 1S29. The first weevils v/cre observed in the trees in southern Illi- 
nois April 14 this year and Aprii 6 in 1929. E^g-laying was re 11 under 
way during the last reek in April in Georgia. The first larva was ob- 
served to leave peach drops in the Fort Valley district of Georgia on 
April 28. This is about two weeks later than usual, and as a result no 
damage was done except to extremely late varieties of peaches in the 
Georgia fruit bolt. In the Past-Central States, particularly in the 
southern part, this insect seriously dana&ed apples luring May. This 
is accounted for by the complete failure of the stone-fruit crop due to 
rinter killing in this region. During June this insect appeared to be 
more prevalent than usual in the New England and Middle Atlantic States, 
Toward the end of the season a very considerable late injury was renort- 
ed throughout the New England, Middle Atlantic, and East-Central fruit 
sections, while in the South this insect was less destructive than in 
previous ye.ars. 
JAPANESE BEETLE 
"Under the quarantine regulations for the Japanese beetle ( Po-illia 
.japonica Newm.V. in effect throughout the summer of 1930, the area 
designated as generally infested covered 25,592 square miles., extending 
from the vicinity of Baltimore, Mi., and Harrisburg, Pa., to' Newburgh, 
N. Y. , and New Haven, Conn. Outside this area there occur rf number of 
more or less isolated infestations in what is known as the lightly in- 
fested area. The latter covers 18,293 square miles, largely in Maryland, 
central Pennsylvania, and Connecticut. Scouting during the groria 
season of 1930 showed new infestations outside the regulated areas at 
Plymouth, New Bedford, and Attleboro, Mass.; Newport and Westerly, R. I.; 
Waverly and Buffalo, N. Y.; Lock Haven, Pittsburgh, New Castle, and five 
other points between Harrisburg and Pittsburgh, Pa.; Georgetown and 
Lewes, Del.; and Newport News, Portsmouth, and five villages in "Accovac 
and Northampton counties, Va. In addition, the presence of infestation, 
was determined at Boston, Mass., Providence, H. I., and Cr^c Charles r*nd 
Norfolk, Va. , whore beetles had previously been discovered althc these 
localities had not been brought under Federal quarantine regulations, 
Points in the lightly infested areas where Japanese beetles had not 
previously been discovered included West Springfield, Mass.; Groton, 
Enfield, Bradford, Danbury, and Tcrryville, Conn.; 'South Waverly, Lewis- 
burg, Carlisle, and Boiling Springs, Pa.; and Hyattsville and Weverton, 
Md. At o. number of these points only one Japanese beetle was coll- 
The most pronounced increases in the number of beetles caught in traps 
at the outlying points of infestation were at Cape Charles and Alexan- 
dria, Va.; Hartford, Conn.; and Cambridge, Md." 1 
1 Plant Quarantine and Control Administration, U. S. D. A. 
