Abstract. We compute the first EHP spectral sequence differential followed by the double suspension. We show that 2n,(S*n+x) C Im(£2), which refines the exponent for 7t»(S2n+l) of James and Selick. The proof follows an odd primary program of Gray and Harper, and uses Barratt's theory of unsuspended Hopf invariants and Boardman and Steer's geometric Hopf invariants.