Education Department Bulletin 



Published fortnightly by the University of the State of New York 



Entered as second-class matter June 24, 1908. at the Post Office at Albany, N. Y., under 



the act of July 16, 1894 



No. 455 ALBANY, N. Y. September 15, 1909 



New York State Museum 



John M. Clarke, Director 

 Ephraim Porter Felt, State Entomologist 



Museum bulletin 134 



24th REPORT OF THE STATE ENTOMOLOGIST igo8 



To John M. Clarke, Director of Science Division 



I have the lienor of presenting herewith my report on the 

 injurious and other insects of the State of New York for the year 

 ending- October 15, 1908. 



A number of species have inflicted serious injuries upon both fruit 

 and shade trees. A most interesting phenomenon was the wide- 

 spread and abundant flight of the snow-white linden moth. An 

 unusual feature was the capture, within the limits of the city of 

 Albany, of two specimens of a small, green, subtropical cock- 

 roach. 



Fruit tree insects. Fruit trees in the western part of the State 

 were seriously injured in some sections by the cigar case bearer, 

 a species which is very rarely abundant enough to cause material 

 damage in the Hudson river valley. Depredations by the above 

 mentioned case bearer were frequently associated with severe 

 injury by a small plant mite known as the blister mite. Western 

 fruit growers were also greatly exercised by the caterpillars of 

 the white marked tussock moth eating into the young fruit, a 

 troublesome departure from the normal habit. The fall canker 

 worm was unusually abundant and destructive on eastern Long 

 Island and in the vicinity of New York city. The San Jose scale 

 is one of the most serious insect pests of the horticulturist. The 

 warm, dry weather the latter part of the season has been favor- 

 able to the unrestricted multiplication of this insect, and in some 

 cases infested orchards have become very badly affected. Our 



