240 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



The reporter would be greatly obliged for any fiicts upon 

 this subject communicated by those who may have a chance 

 to observe what birds feed on particular kinds of insects and 

 at what season and month of the year. 



Our cranberry crop has been grievously ravaged during the 

 year past, though the writer has no information to give at 

 present in relation to this subject fjirther than that recorded 

 in the article entitled "New and Little Known Insects," in 

 the Report on Agriculture of the State for 1870, and that 

 given in the author's "Guide to the Study of Insects," though 

 he has visited several cranberry pastures during the recent 

 autumn. In conclusion, before oifering the accompanying 

 remarks on certain injurious and beneficial insects, the reporter 

 would invite the attention of agriculturists to those insects that 

 prey on the cranberry crop and other injurious insects, and 

 beg them to communicate to him at Salem, specimens and 

 information about their habits and extent of ravages which 

 may be of use in making up the next year's report. 



INSECTS INJURIOUS TO THE STRAWBERRY. 



TJie May Beetle. — With the increasing attention paid to 

 the culture of the strawberry, it has been found that several 

 insects not before suspected to be inclined to feed on this 

 plant, now habitually frequent it. Of these perhaps the most 

 injurious is the strawberry saw-fly, which in this State, but 

 more especially the Western States, as in Illinois, does in 

 some cases the most grievous damage. Then a few moths 

 which have been known to feed on fruit-trees, the currant, 

 &c., have transferred their affections to the strawberry; such 

 are apple-leaf-roller or tortrix, the saffron measuring-moth 

 (Angerona crocataria), and several other caterpillars found 

 in the Western States, and described in the entomological 

 reports of Messrs. Walsh & Riley, and also in Harris's Trea- 

 tise on the Injurious Insects of this State, and the reporter's 

 "Guide to the Study of Insects." 



Next however in importance to the strawberry saw-fly (Env- 

 phydis 7naculaius), is one of the most common and familiar 

 of all these insects which everywhere force their attention 

 upon us. This is the common May beetle, June beetle or 

 "dor bug," the American representative in its abundance and 

 injurious qualities of the European cockchafer. 



