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twig injury in other years are as follows: April 10, 1925; April 20, 
1926; April 1, 1927; April 25, 1928; April 4," 1929; April 29, 1930; 
April 22, 1931; May 17, 1932; April 20, 1933. 
C. H. Alden (April 2l): Adults have been caught in bait traps for the 
past two weeks at Cornelia. 
LESSER PEACH BORER ( Aegeria pictipes G. & R.)* 
Georgia. 0. I. Snapp (April 12): Spring-brood moths are beginning to emerge. 
PLUM CURCULIO ( Conotrachelus nenuphar Host.) 
Delaware. L. A. Stearns (April 24): First emergence of the plum curculio 
from hibernation was observed at Camden on April 20. 
Georgia. 0. I. Snapp (April 20): Adults appeared from hibernation in 
numbers at Fort Valley between April 1 and 3 and were disseminated 
throughout the orchards by April 10. Eggs were found in the little 
peaches on April 18. (April 24): The first larvae of the season were 
found today in green peaches. They were about two days old. An adult 
depositing eggs in a peach was observed in an orchard on April 19. 
C. H. Alden (April 2l): Curculios were caught on jarring frames start- 
ing April 9 at Cornelia and on April 2 at Thomaston. 
T. L. Bissell (April 5): The first beetle of the year was jarred from 
peach April 5 at Experiment (6 jarrings made previously, from March 21 
to April 2) . 
South Carolina. W. C. Nettles andF. Sherman (April 25): Adults were ob- 
served in the Sandhill and Piedmont sections, April 2 to 17. 
GREEN PEACH APHID ( Myzus persicae Sulz.) 
Montana. A. L. Strand (April 2): M. persica e is moderately abundant. 
Idaho. R. W. Haegele (April 18): The peach aphid is very abundant in south- 
western Idaho. 
Utah. G. F. Knowlton (April 18): Green peach aphids working inside the 
blossoms have caused large numbers of peach blooms to dry up upon trees 
at the Davis County Experiment Station farm. 
Nevada. G. F. Schweis (April 2): Aphids are very abundant in western Nevada 
and are curling the leaves of peach and plum. 
PEAR 
PEAR PSYLLA ( Psyllia pyricola Foerst.) 
Massachusetts. A. I. Bourne (April 24): Pear psylla eggs were observed at 
Amherst on April 19, and at Waltham on the 18th. Eggs are hatching 
^Correction: The note in the Insect Pest Survey Bulletin, April, 1934, page 
47, by 0. I. Snapp, under Aegeria exitiosa /refers to A. pictipes . 
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