Ill 1881 the apple maggot was reported by Professor Comstock " 

 from Ithaca, N. Y., in apples, and was bred by him from Crataegus 

 at Washington, D. C. Professor Cook.'^ in 1884, received specimens 

 from Delavan, Wis., where it was reported as doing very great in- 

 jury, and the year following, the insect was the cause of considerable 

 loss in Ingham and adjoining counties in Michigan. 



Lintner,'^^ in 1885, gives the additional localities of North Ashburn- 

 ham, Mass., Franklin and Schenectady, X. Y., and Brandon, Vt. Its 

 introduction into Maine, as stated by Professor Harvey,'' occurred 

 prior to 1882, by which time it had become well established, and by 

 1899 occurred quite generally over the State. Its occurrence at Mont- 

 clair, N. J., was recorded in 1889 by Mr. E. Williams, in Garden 

 and Forest, page 527, and this locality is also given for the apple 

 maggot by Dr. J. B. Smith in his list of insects of New Jersey, page 

 687 ((1899). 



In 1894 Doctor Howard '' records the occurrence of the apple mag- 

 got from AVa} nesville, N. C., and Doctor Fletcher ^ records its first ap- 

 pearance in Canada, August 31, 1896, in apples from Adolphustown, 

 Ontario. As stated by Professor Lochhead,^ it had become quite in- 

 jurious by 1902, more than one-half of the crop having been destroyed 

 in some orchards in Prince Edward County. Professor Osborn,'' 

 on the authority of Professor Hine, records its occurrence in north- 

 western Ohio in 1904, and states that injured fruit comes on the mar- 

 ket at Columbus, though perhaps from outside of the State. Doctor 

 Chittenden ' notes that the apple maggot was unusually injurious in 

 Ohio in 1903. By 1905 the insect had extended its range in Canada, 

 as shown by the records of Doctor Fletcher ^ of its occurrence at 

 Como and St. Hilaire, Quebec. The apple maggot is recorded from 

 Minnesota by Professor Washburn,^" and the records of the Bureau of 

 Entomology show the additional localities of Dyberry, Pa., and 

 Douglas, Mich. 



Numerous records of this Bureau, as well as published accounts, 

 show that the insect is generally distributed throughout the greater 

 part of the New England States, and that it is a very destructive 



"Rept. Ent. U. S. Dept. Agric.,. 1881-82, p. 196. 

 6 Rept. Mich. Hort. Soc, 1884, p. 200. 

 '■Second Report N. Y. State Ent., p. 121 (1885). 



(^Ann. Rept. Maine State Coll. Agr. Exp. Sta., 1889, Pt. III. pp. 190-241. 

 e Insect Life. VII, p. 279. 



^ Rept. Ent. and Bot. Exp. Farms Canada for 1896, p. 257 (1897). 

 i'SSrd Ann. Rept. Ent. Soc. Ont., p. 67, 1902 (1903). 

 ''Bui. 46, Div. Ent. U. S. Dept. Agric, p. 88 (1904). 

 ^ Yearbook, U. S. Dept. Agric. for 1903, p. 5(!3. 



J' Rept. Ent. and Bot. Exp. Farms of Canada for 1904, p. 238 (1905), 

 'i^Bul. 93, Miuu. Agric. Exp. Sta., p. 118 (1!X)5). 

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