INSECTS Ari-'EfTINc; PARK AM) WOODI.AM) iUF.ES 4I9 



square miles in (.litTcrcnt s\vanii)s. It was rc|)()ne(l ••from Schroon Lake 

 to North Iilha and alioiit Moun' .Marc\-." The work of liiis sawlly was 

 observed on larciirs durinj^ tin- \cars 1 8<S4 to iS86 in several counties of 

 northern New \nvk \)y Stale Botanist Peck, who kindh' reported the 

 tle])redalions to 1 )r Lintner. Again in 1SS7. larvae of this insect were 

 received by Dr ]'.. 1.. Slurtexant of the State AL^ricultural M.\i)erimenl 

 Station from Mr 1'".. Pheljis of 1 )i- Kalb junction. The ainindance 

 and ilestructiveness of this pest is well described in the following notice 

 from the .S'/ Lawrence Republican of Jul\- 27, US87. 



Mr David Page of Jerusalem Corners, in this town, has given us an 

 account of a remarkable pest of worms which recently infested his premises. 

 There arc- three larch or tamarack trees growing in his dooryard. About 

 July 7, very soon after the extremelv hot weather set in, a few worms 

 appeared upon them, feeding upon the leaves. The next day the\- had 

 doubled in nvmiber, and in a day or two had become a countless host, com- 

 pletely covering the trees, so that the end of the finger could not ije placeil 

 even on the trunk of one of them without touching one or more of the 

 worms. They also covered apple and maple trees and shrubbery, and the 

 grass beneath, but ate nothing, so far as could be discovered, except the 

 feaves of the tamarack. They swarmeil \\\m\\ the house and piazza, and it 

 became necessary to sweep them from the latter every few minutes. 'I hey 

 accumulated in little windrows along the house. The countless hordes of 

 worms became an object of great curiosity and interest to people of the 

 neighborhootl. and ^lr Page and his family became really alarmed as to the 

 result of this invasion ; but in scarcely a week from the time of their 

 ai)i)earance they disappearetl as rapidly as they had come, and in a day or 

 two none of them were to be fountl. The tamaracks were left as l)are as 

 in winter, but no other signs of damage were visible. Whether the worms 

 had gone into the ground or what had become of them seems not to have 

 been ascertained. 



Thct work of this insect was also brought to I )r Lintner's allenlion the 

 same year from Cherry \'alley, Otsego co., by Rev. Henry U. Swinnerlon, 

 and a brief paragraph puljtished in the Conntry Cenllenian July 14 of that 

 \ear doubtless refers to the work of this insect at Sharon. The follow- 

 ing account of personal observations by I'r Lintner in the southern 

 portions of Hamilton county, gives a ver)- good idea of the seriousness 

 of its attack. 



