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has appeared in considerable numbers on gooseberries. Plum scales 
fLecanium prunastri] have hatched and are now on the 
under side of the leaves of the infested trees. June 30. Second brood of 
pear psylla is not numerous. Plum scale has done little injury. July 20. 
A large number of maples in Rochester are suffering from the attacks of 
the sugar maple borer [Plagionotus speciosus]. The infested 
trees have very scanty foliage this year and are gradually dying. Oct. 1. 
Oneida county (Jeanette C. Miller, Aldercreek) Colorado potato 
beetles | Doryphora 1ro-lineata] very numerous. Apple tree 
tent caterpillars [Clisiocampa americana] have been very 
abundant. The cherry Tortrix [Cacoecia cerasivorana| 
has spun its nests in almost every roadside bush and is very abundant. 
June 20. Young grasshoppers are very numerous. There is a second 
crop of both potato beetles and currant worms [Pteronus ribesiil. 
July 6. The two last named insects are diminishing in numbers. In 
Otsego county I saw a large sugar bush of many acres in extent entirely 
stripped by forest tent caterpillar [Clisiocampa disstria] of 
upper leaves; only a few lower branches had any foliage remaining, I 
heard that there were many similar acres. July 26. Fall web worm 
[Hyphantria cunea] numerous on cherry and maple trees. 
Aug. 8 Grasshoppers and other insects pleasingly scarce. Aug. 15. 
[Lithocolletis aceriella] working in maple leaves to some 
Extentamisepaur i. 
Onondaga county (Miss A. M. Armstrong, Belle Isle)—Where not 
destroyed, apple tree tent caterpillars [Clisiocampa americana| 
have eaten every green leaf and bud. Small measuring worms, probably 
canker worms, are proving very destructive to apple trees. May 18. 
The work of canker worms is more general than was supposed last week. 
May 27. Apple trees attacked by canker worms completely stripped of 
foliage. June 2. Potato beetles becoming very numerous. Striped 
cucumber beetle [Diabrotica vittata] destroying squash, pump- 
kin, melon and cucumber vines. June g. Canker worms have now 
buried themselves to a depth of about 2 inches in the soil about the trees. 
At Oakwood cemetery the 17 year cicada [C. septendecim] is 
present in large numbers, but is doing little damage. Many sparrows were 
busy feeding on the cicadas. At Onondaga Valley, Syracuse, much the 
same condition prevailed. Larvae of grape vine flea beetle [Haltica 
chalybea| abundant on grape vines, and considerable damage by 
them is reported from Baldwinsville. The wheat midge [Diplosis 
