THE INSECT RECORD FOR 1895 
BY CLARENCE M. WEED 
One of the most noticeable insect attacks during early spring 
was that of the old and well-known tent caterpillar,* a pest 
that for more than a century has periodically appeared along New 
England highways. Its life-history has been given in previous 
reports of this station and need not here be recapitulated, but 
the pest is so easily destroyed when the nests are small, by rub- 
bing them off with a cloth or something similar, that in orchard 
trees at least they should not be tolerated. 
Injury by the canker worm has continued in some localities, 
although apparently the pest was less abundant than in previous 
seasons. The methods of preventing such injury by banding 
Fig. 1. Canker Worm : e, eggs ;/, larva ; c, pupa ; a, male moth ; b, female moth rafter 
Riley]. 
the trees or by spraying with paris green when the worms are 
small are well known and should be resorted to by every 
orchardist. The spraying method seems, on the whole, the sim- 
pler. 
The Colorado potato beetle! seems to have been unus- 
* Clisiocampa americana. 
t Doryfhora \o-lineata. 
