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LSSSER PEACH-TREE BORER ( Aeger ia pictip es G. & R. ) 
Georgia 0* I, Snapp (April 17): This pest is unusually abundant in 
southern Georgia orchards this spring* 
PLUM CURCULIC ( Conotrachelus nenuphar Hbst, ) 
Connecticut J. L, Rogers (April 23): At Mt, Carrael they are evidently 
just coming out of hibernation, 
Georgia 0, I« Snapp (April 17): Irrespective of the abnormally 
cold winter the curculio is appearing in numbers, and 
apparently the mortality during hibernation has not been 
higher than usual. Adul^ curculios have been appearing in 
numbers since March 29. One hundred and seventy-five beetles 
were collected on 107 trees this morning. The largest number 
collected on any morning during the 1923 season on these 
same trees was I3S. Hibernation records at the insectary 
show that to date Bermuda grass has carried through over 
50 per cent of the adult curculios. The first egg was 
noticed in the field on April 9. Many eggs have been found 
daily since that date, 
TWELVE-SPOTTED CUCUMBER BEETLE ( Diabrotica 12-punctata 01 iv, ) 
Georgia 0* I* Snapp (April If) : At Port Valley they are present as 
usual, and doing some damage in peach orchards by devouring 
the small peach before the shedding of the calyces. 
Mississippi J, M« Langston (April 12) « At Starkville damage is slight. 
SA1I JOSE SCALE ( Aspidiotus p erniciosus Corns t, ) 
Georgia 0. I, Snapp (April 17): The San Jose scale has been pretty 
generally Killed out by low temperatures during the past winter 
and by more careful spraying, A large amount of lubricating- 
oil emulsion was used in the Georgia Peach Belt during the 
past winter. This was both of the heated and cold-stirred 
emulsiono?. Usually this scale breeds all winter in this 
latitude, but on account of the above conditions no crawlers 
have been observed since the occurrence of the low temperatures. 
No injury to peach trees has resulted to date from the use of the 
lubricating-oil emulsions, 
GRASSHOPPERS (Acridiidae) 
Georgia 0. I. Snapp (April 15) } Grasshoppers are troublesome in some 
orchards at Port Valley, often devouring the whole of a small 
green peach. 
