Show climbing peach borer Is new orchard problem difficulties in controlling peach tree borers have been further complicated in recent years by the increasing numbers of the lesser peach tree borer a species which has a habit of working to the lower and larger branches of the tree there it Is out of reach of the deadly fumea from the crystals customarily applied on the ground around the tree to control peach borers entomologists of the united states department of agriculture now recommend the use of the same insecticide but in a different fonn they found that crystals be dissolved in crude cottonseed oil ln grafting wax or any highly penetrative solvent and painted on the bark around the borer burrows the insecticide applied in that manner kills a large percentage of the borers while developing this control meas anre the investigators also learned how to snare many other borers of fruit and ornamental trees in their dens tor the same process Is likely to prore pro re generally effective against pests of like habit |