REPORT OF STATE ENTOMOLOGIST I899 573 
g. ‘Trees about six miles north are nearly defoliated by forest tert cater- 
pillars [Clisiocampa disstria] though there are scarcely any 
in the immediate vicinity. Horn fly [Haematobia serrata| is 
present in large numbers. Many orchards are literally covered with the 
scurfy bark louse [Chionaspis furfurus]. June 3. Colorado 
potato. beetles are abundant and doing much damage. Grasshoppers 
are very numerous. July 7. Grasshoppers are doing much damage to 
oats. July 31. White grubs are plentiful in old meadows and hoed 
crops. Aug. 12. 
Wayne county (C. H. Stuart, Newark)—Both species of asparagus 
beetles [Crioceris asparagi, C. 12-punctata] occur here. 
The work of the wheat midge [? Diplosis tritici] was extremely 
bad last year. Apple tree tent caterpillars [Clisiocampa ameri- 
canal] are doing great damage; we have found it necessary to send 
men with ladders to kill them by hand. May 20. Apple tree tent cater- 
pillars are now full grown and seeking places to spin up. June 2. 
Larvae of apple tree tent caterpillars have disappeared, but forest tent 
caterpillars [Clisiocampa disstria| are nearly as abundant on 
walks as the other species have been. June 7. Larvae of raspberry saw 
fly [Monophadnoides rubi] are doing much damage, the 
leaves of the infested patch looked today like those of a badly infested 
currant bush. There is hardly a leaf in the field without several holes 
in it, and most of the older ones are eaten to threads. June 12. Work 
of the fly [Cecidomyia destructor] is very bad in wheat, a 
great amount of it being down. July 11. There is no evidence of work 
by the wheat midge, the clover midge [Cecidomyia legu- 
minicola] and the onion thrips [Thrips tabaci]. The 12 
spotted asparagus beetle seems to have disappeared. Nearly one third 
of the wheat is down and the damage may be perhaps one fourth of the 
entire yield, the result of Hessian fly work. It was specially bad on 
early-sown fields. July 25. A small green larva [subsequently identified 
by Mr Chittenden as the red banded leaf roller Lophoderus tri- 
ferana| was found eating the green pop corn; it has attacked about 
27% of the ears and 37% of the corn on the ear is destroyed. Sep. 19 
Yates county (C. R. Crosby, Crosby)—Grape vine flea beetles 
[Haltica chalybea], though nearly as abundant as last season, 
have not done the damage they did last year, as growers knew what to 
expect and caught them as soon as they appeared. ‘The warm weather 
lessened their destructiveness by bringing the foliage out faster. No 
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