REPORT OF STATE ENTOMOLOGIST. 20/ 



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INSECTS OF THE YEAR. 



About 1,500 specimens were sent in for identification during 

 the year. These were included under i6o different species, 

 embracing all orders of insect life. Among them were 

 the following: — Brown-tail; cecropia; polyphemus; luna; 

 maia ; io ; forest and apple tent ; red-hump ; yellow-neck ; 

 tussock; fall web-worm; hickory tiger; cherry-tree ugly- 

 nest; three species of Hahsidota; Mourning cloak; canker 

 worm; apple aphis; apple borer; apple bud-moth; apple leaf 

 roller ; leaf galls ; oyster-shell bark lice ; galls on apple ; a num- 

 ber of different species of sphinx ; several specimens of plant 

 lice ; galls ; saw-flies, elm, pine, birch, fir and willow ; pine 

 borers ; "Lady bugs ;" bean weevil ; plum flea beetle ; grasshop- 

 pers; a large number of injurious moths; cut worms; beetles; 

 flea beetles ; strawberry borer ; etc., etc. 



June 17th a large number of "June Bugs," Lachnosterna 

 fusca, were received from Thompson pond, Oxford. The 

 report was that acres of this pond were covered with these bee- 

 tles so that it was very noticeable when rowing through them. 



On July 1 6th I was asked to examine an elm tree on the East 

 Side in Augusta. This tree had been brought from a nursery 

 in Worcester, Massachusetts, and was badly infested with a 

 species of Coccid, or louse, Gossyparia spuria^ identified by Dr. 

 Howard. The life history is given by him in "Insect Life," Vol. 

 II, page 36, the old name being Gossyparia ulmi, and is men- 

 tioned as being imported from Europe. It has never before 

 been reported from this State. The tree was nearly dead, so 

 was removed and burned. 



When shade trees are set it would be much safer to take our 

 native trees in preference to those grown in other states. In 

 this way many insect pests might ,be kept away from our bor- 

 ders. This tree was our common white elm, Ulmus americana. 



Many of the asters in the different nurseries were badly 

 infested during the month of August by a species of Aphid, 

 Nectarophora amhrosiae, a rather large reddish brown aphis 

 which congregate at the junction of the branches and leaves. 

 These can be very easily controlled with kerosene emulsion. 



In September one of the field men sent in some insects from 

 York Village that he reported as causing a great deal of annoy- 



