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Georgia. 0. I. Snapp (August 20): At Fort Valley first-generation adults 
supplied with apples and pears deposited very few eggs during the 
month. Jarrings in August revealed very feu a&ults on trees in some 
orchards heavily infested earlier in the season, and it is "believed 
that the "beetles are now migrating toward places of hibernation. 
Missouri. L. Haseman (August 2k): The plum curculio was late in appear- 
ing in Missouri orchards and during the first 2 weeks in August con- 
siderable numbers of. larvae were maturing in plums at Columbia. 
Mississippi. II. D. Peets (August 23): The plum curculio seriously in- 
jured late peaches in southwestern Mississippi. 
PEACH BORER (Aegeria exitiosa Say) 
Georgia. 0. I. Snapp (August 20): The peak of pupation at Port Valley 
occurred during the past week. Pield mice and rats are destroying 
many pupae in some orchards. In ether orchards pigs have reduced the 
number of pupae. 
Tennessee. G. M. Bentley (August 20): The peach tree "borer appears to 
"be very plentiful in the commercial and home orchards in all sections 
of the State where paradichlorobenzene has not "been used. 
LESSER PEACH TREE BORER ( Aegeria pictipes G. & P..) 
Tennessee. G. M. Bentley (August 20): More prevalent this year than 
usual. 
EUROPEAN EARWIG ( Forficula auricular i a L. ) 
Washington. E. J. Newcomer (August 19): luring July several reports of 
the occurrence of the earwig in Yakima were received. In one instance 
the insects were doing considerable damage to ripening apricots and 
peaches on "back-yard trees. 
CHERRY 
CHERRY FRUIT WORM ( Lasp eyresia packard i Zell. ) 
Washington. E. J. Newcomer (August 21): A lepidopterous larva was quite 
common in sour cherries during July in the vicinity of Kent, Wash. 
At least 10 percent of the cherries were infested. It is probably the 
same species reported from British Columbia, L. "packardi Zell. It was 
later determined that this insect occurs throiighout the region between 
Seattle and Tacoma. 
CHERRY FRUIT FLY (Bhag oletis cin^ulata Loew). 
Washington, E. J. Newcomer (August 19): A single maggot, probably this 
species, was found in a sour cherry near Kent on August 10. 
