572 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 
Aphids have increased some on cherry and currants and the apple aphis 
[Aphis mali] is doing some damage. No potato beetles have been 
seen. The second brood of currant worms has not appeared. June ro. 
A few fall web worms [Hyphantria cunea]| have appeared. 
July 1. Apple aphis is persistent on young trees, where it is doing some 
damage. July 10. Apple aphis stillon some trees. July 22. Apple aphis 
has nearly all disappeared. Aug. 5. 
Warren county (C. L. Williams, Glens Falls) — Forest tent cater- 
pillars |Clisiocampa disstria]| have done much damage in 
this place. They are now eating voraciously on hard maple, white elm, 
basswood and apple trees. At this date there are many caterpillars not 
half grown. A few caterpillars have apparently got their growth, but 
none have begun to spin up, so far as observed. June 3. Forest tent 
caterpillars are beginning to spin their cocoons; it was first observed on 
June 3. Many shade trees, hard maples, elms and basswood have been 
entirely defoliated. Damage has also been done in the villages of South 
Glens Falls, Saratoga county, and Sandyhill and Fort Edward, Wash 
ington county. June g. Forest tent caterpillars are about through eating 
and are spinning up very rapidly. Multitudes of cocoons are spun among 
the leaves on which the caterpillars feed. Caterpillars of the willow but- 
terfly |Euvanessa antiopa|] are quite widely distributed over the 
village and in South Glens Falls. June 14. Moths of the forest tent 
caterpillars are beginning to appear. The board of trustees of Glens 
Falls advertized on June 17 to pay a bounty of roc a quart for the 
cocoons. Up to date there have been collected and destroyed 585 
quarts of cocoons. The cocoons of the forest tent caterpillar are parasi- 
tized by several ichneumon flies. A Podisus spinosus was 
found among the cocoons of this insect. June 22. On June 26, the last 
cocoon was received, making a total of 1350 quarts destroyed ata cost of 
$135. June 30. Young corn is being attacked by the stalk borer | Hy- 
droecia nitela]. July 12. Some little damage is being done to 
corn by the stalk borer; one farmer reports one stalk in five infested on 
new land, but no injury on old land. I have also found it working on 
old land. July 21. The stalk borer seems to be working in isolated 
places here and there. Aug. 3. 
Washington county (H. L. Beadle, West Cambridge)—Canker 
worms have been comparatively scarce till this spring, a few may be 
found on nearly every tree that has not been sprayed. Apple tree tent 
caterpillars [Clisiocampa americana|are not very plenty. May 
