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central Georgia. Cool, rainy weather in the latter State delayed puoation, 
"but the infestation v:as heavier than usual. In Alabama the infestation on 
Carman and Kiley peaches was the heaviest since 1918. Elbertas in Georgia 
were heavily infested by the second brood. On December 1, 0. I. Snapp made 
the following statement: "An adult emerged from the soil of Fort Valley to- 
day, which is the latest emergence date on record. The larva from which this 
adult was reared entered the soil on or before August 1; therefore, this in- 
dividual remained in the soil as larva, pupa, and adult at least 122 days, 
the longest period 'ever recorded. - " 
ORIENTAL FRUIT MOTH 
Winter mortality of the oriental fruit moth in western Hew York State 
amounted to 75 percent, and in Delaware ranged from 40 to 50 percent. By the 
last week in April pupation was fairly well under way in the Kiddle Atlantic 
'States and emergence of adults had started ay the last of the month. First- 
brood larvae were appearing in peach twigs in the South Atlantic States by the 
last week in the month. Infestation in twigs was more abundant than usual in 
New York, Illinois, western Maryland, Virginia, Tennessee, and Alabama; The 
brood that normally infests the fruit remained in the twigs for hibernation 
in the Northern States, and -was so late coming out in the Southern States that 
little damage was done. 
GRAPE LEAFHOFPER 
Early in March the grape, leaf hopper appeared in large numbers in the San 
Joaquin and Imperial Valleys of California and the Salt River Valley of 
Arizona. As the season advanced, the worst outbreak in many years developed 
in the San Joaquin Valley. Late in June heavy infestations were reported from 
Michigan and western New York through Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana, and 
westward to Nebraska, Kansas, and Minnesota. Considerable injury occurred in 
many localities. In the Niagara district of New York damage was more severe 
than it has been in many years. 
mm flies 
The extensive use of glass flytraps resulted in taking specimens of the 
Mexican fruit fly ( Anastre-pha ludens Loew) from approximately three times as 
many groves in the lower Rio Grande Valley o- Texas as had been found infested 
in any previous year. Despite intensive inspections of the fruit in the 176 
groves in which adult flies were taken, no larvae were found until the latter 
part of April, after the end of the harvesting and shipping period, when fruit 
gleaned from four groves in the tree-to-tree inspections in the Mission 
district was found infested. Adults had previously been taken in three of 
these groves. Of interest in the larval findings was the fact that several 
green "October-bloom" fruit were found infested with full-grown larvae, in- 
dicating that the eggs had been laid while the fruit was decidedly immature. 
The inability to locate larval infestations, even in a 35-day extension of the 
harvesting period, indicates that the number of flies present in the valley 
was considerably less than during some previous years, even though the number 
of groves involved shows the infestation to be generally scattered. Three 
