NOXIOUS INSECTS. 



NOTES OF THE YEAR. 



Of the more prominent and important of our insect enemies pro- 

 longed experience is continuall}'" teaching us something new, and of 

 some of those already treated of in former Reports,! shall, each year, 

 under the head of "Notes of the Year," bring together such additional 

 facts and discoveries as are worthy of being recorded. These notes 

 are therefore intended to supplement the original articles, and I shall 

 endeavor to avoid anything like repetition of what has already ap- 

 peared. By thus adding the observations of the year, the original 

 reports will be rendered more complete and circumspect. 



THE CODLING MOTH. 



The first moth was bred this year, from larvae which had wintered 

 out-doors, on May 7th, and the first one captured, at large. May 11th. 

 The experience of the year is of importance, more especially as giv- 

 ing a confirmed estimate of the value of 



WIER'S APPLE- WORM TRAP. 



Fully resolved to test this trap thoroughly, in comparison with 

 other methods of allurement, I commenced (having, of course, pur- 

 chased the right to use !) as early as the first of May to prepare a 

 number of trees as follows: 1st. With Wier's trap screwed on in 

 difi'erent positions — some trees having single traps, either on the 

 north, south, east or west sides, and placed at difi'erent heights from 

 the ground, and some having as many as three traps; 2d. Strips 

 of old sacks, four inches wide, and lined on one side with pieces of 

 lath tacked on transversely, and at such distance from each other that, 

 "when brought around the tree, they formed an almost complete wooden 



