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This is due to the fact that its operations in the bud, destroying 
all the foliage and fruit which normally would come from that 
point, are particularly serious to the vineyardists since a very little 
feeding in this manner causes an enormous loss. This pest, as is 
well known, feeds upon the foliage in June as small brown grubs. 
Spraying at this time will destroy the young and largely reduce 
the numbers of beetles which can winter and attack the buds in 
early spring. 
White flower cricket (Oecanthus' niveus DeG.). The 
slender, whitish adults of this species are rather common during 
the latter part of the season and the oviposition scars made by the 
females are frequently met with in twigs and the stouter her- 
baceous plants. Occasionally this species is so abundant as to 
cause considerable injury, as was the case in the vicinity of Ripley, 
N. Y., during the fall of 1905, though the injury was not observed 
till early the following spring. Mr F. A. Morehouse of Ripley, 
under date of April 30, 1906, submitted specimens of the work 
of this insect and stated that some vineyards were very badly af- 
fected, many of the canes dying from the wounds inflicted. The 
investigation showed that the greatest injury was in vineyards 
where an abundant weedy growth was present. The most effective 
method of preventing trouble of this character is clean culture, 
since flower crickets display a marked preference for weedy places. 
Garden insects 
Twelve spotted asparagus beetle (Crioceris duodecim- 
punctata Linn.). This species was observed last July breeding 
rather abundantly on a small plot of asparagus at Westfield, N. Y. 
in association with the common asparagus beetle C. asparagi 
Linn. It was not quite as abundant as the latter form though 
specimens were easily found on the vines and a number captured. 
This more recent introduction is already widely though locally dis- 
tributed in New York State. 
Dark sided cutworm (Paragrotis messoria _ Harr.). 
This rather common caterpillar was responsible for serious injury 
to primroses and other garden plants at Cold Spring Harbor, L. I. 
The attack occurred during the latter part of May. This cutworm, 
when full grown, is something over an inch long, dingy ash-gray 
in color, darker on the sides, with a dark, dingy dorsal line. Each 
segment is marked with eight small, black, hair-bearing tubercles 
arranged in two groups of four. The posterior extremity has a 
greenish tinge and the under surface and legs are somewhat lighter 
than the upper. 
