BULLETIN 283 



Published monthly by the 



University of the State of New York 



MAY 1903 



New York State Museum 



Frederick J. H. Merrill Director 

 Ephraim Porter Felt State Entomologist 



Bulletin 64 



ENTOMOLOGY 17 



1 8th Report of the State Entomologist 



ON 



INJURIOUS AND OTHER INSECTS 



OF THE 



STATE OF NEW YORK 



1902 



PAGE 



Introductioo 89 



General entomologic features. . 89 



Office work 90 



Special investigations 91 



Publications 91 



Collections of insects 92 



New quarters 93 



Voluntary observers 93 



Acknowledgments 93 



Injurious insects 



Euproctis chrysorrhoea, 



brown tail moth 94 



Psila rosae, carrot rust fly . 99 



Notes for the year 103 



Fruit tree pests 104 



Small fruit insects 105 



Grass and grain insects 106 



Shade tree insects 108 



Forest insects 110 



Household insects 113 



Beneficial insects 114 



Injurious insects from abroad. ... 116 



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Injurious insects, etc. [continued) 

 Species of primary economic 



importance 120 



Species which may become very 



destructive 122 



Other species 122 



Experimental work against San 



Jose scale insect 126 



Fall applications 126 



Spring applications 131 



Summary 143 



Voluntary entomologic service. . . 144 



Summaries of reports 144 



Faunal studies 153 



Coleoptera taken at Newport, 



Herkimer co. N. Y 153 



List of publications of the ento- 

 mologist 161 



Contributions to collection 170 



Explanation of plates 178 



Plates 1-6 face 179 



Index 181 



