Show Insect Responsible for W Wormy Plum and Peach The In Insect responsible fur wormy peaches and plums Is s time tho plum cur cullo The worms In peaches are lire the tho tie young grubs of this The They Lel belong ng to the same family Ins as as tile lie boll bol weevil wee Thorough spraying picking up and destroying drops and und frequently frequent frequent- I ly cultivating are the tile control Uleas meas urea ures The makes two kinds of punctures res In the peaches s one fur for feeding feeding feed teed ing purposes und amid the other In which to lay Its eggs J J. J It entomologist Unto ento of the 1 Florida experiment station says 05 there re are two broods of ot this title weevil The Time first lit attacks tucks the poaches peaches Just utter after the blooming period pe ye- rind und and the time second cond Just before the they ripen Tile The eggs of ut the first brood arebald ore are laid bald in the young peaches which soon drop The TIle grub continues to live In lie Ille pencil peach until full grown w when lien it II enters the ground to go Into the stage I It Jt Is Is very ery Important that the these e young peach drops be picked op ap I before these weevils ee have ha had time to toI I complete their development nail and enter I 1 he Ibe ground The They should be picked I up once onto or twice a n week and und burned cr or Or thoroughly cooked In hot water Thorough cultivation cf the time orchard I will help to reduce the weevil Infestation InfeR InfeR- tation as u usually the Insects do not notI enter the ground very deeply Cut Cul- I tI atlon will 1111 turn many of up where their numerous enemies can cnn canI find them I The peaches I should be he sprayed with I lead arsenate In lime Water water water wa wa- ter Just as s the petals are filling tilling In Florida all 1111 peaches are ore likely to bloom at nt the same f time but they should b be sprayed when enough blossoms have appeared to set flet a n crop |