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PEACH BORER ( Aaficeria exit ipsa Say) 
New York M. D. Leonard (September 6). "Abundant in one 40-acre orchard at 
Lyndonvilla; nearly every tree infested. Some larvae about l/2 inch 
in length. AI30 common in all orchards about Heotor." 
Indiana J. J. Davis (September 14). "The peach-tree borer has been the subject 
of a great many inquiries, partly due, no doubt, to the publicity given 
the paradichlorobonaene method of control. Large quantities of this 
insecticide will be used in Indiana this fall, at least one county buy- 
ing it in ton lots. Unfortunately an eastern oompany has been soiling 
considerable <$&Eaitities of a "paradichlorobenzene compound," a matorial 
which we can not recommend." 
LESSER PEACH TREE BORER (Aegeria pictipes G. & R.) 
New York M. D. Leonard (September 6). "Common in one 40-acre orchard at Lyndon- 
villa, mostly in old brown-rot cankers. Many larvae apparently full 
grown. Also common in weakened trees about Hector." 
C. R. Crosby (September 2). "Badly infested trees observed at Youngs- 
town." 
Ohio H. A. Gossard (August 24) . "Shot-hole borer is abundant in many 
sections of the State, affecting particularly peachos and cherries 
weakened by frost injury or other causes. The second-brood beetles 
wore observed near Y, r atervillc on July 26 and /ugust 6. Dust spraying 
programs executed at \/aterville and Lorain have yielded satisfactory 
results as to insoct control but at V/aterville failure to control 
blotch and scab on apple is noted from the use of dusts of the 90-10 
sulphur lead combination and also of the 12-8-90 dehydrate copper- 
arsenate of load-lime mixture." 
Indiana J. J. Davis (September 1-*) . "Shot-hols borer continues to be the 
subject of many inquiries." 
PLUM CURCULIO ( Gonotrachelus nenuphar Hbst.) 
New York C. R. Crosby and assistants. The annual survey of the commercial poach 
crop indicates the following percentages of damage done by this insect: 
Orleans County, 5 per cent; Niagara County, traces; Genesee County, 
2 par cent; Nassau County, 2 per cent. 
RED-LEGGED LOCUST ( Mel ano plus femur-rubrum DaG. ) 
Georgia 0. I. Snapp, Bureau of Entomology (September 9) . "On account of the vai 
dry and hot weather in this locality for the past six weeks vegetation 
has dried up considerably and these grasshoppers have taken to the 
peach trees, eating off all the foliage, in many instances leaving only 
the midrib of the leaves. The damage was serious in several orchards 
as it will probably affect the fruit ouds of next season's crop. In an 
examination made at 'lbany all the foliage had been devoured by these 
grasshoppers on about 100 trees in a 17,000-tree orchard. Every tree 
was severely damaged." 
