THE PRESENT CONDITION OF THE GIPSY 

 MOTH IN NEW HAMPSHIRE. 



In the fall of 1905 a rough scout of the seacoast towns of 

 New Hampshire which are most accessible by through travel 

 from the areas in Massachusetts most infested by the gipsy 

 moth was made by two men employed in the work for a few 

 weeks only. In the course of this scout the moth was dis- 

 covered in all of these towns from the Massachusetts line 

 to Portsmouth, but always in small colonies only. This 

 work was done under the direction of Professor Sanderson, 

 at the expense of the state of New Hampshire, and one of 

 the inspectors was borrowed from the Massachusetts force 

 engaged in the work of suppressing the gipsy and brown- 

 tail moths. 



The appropriation of the general government became 

 available July 1, 1906, and in the latter part of that month 

 scouting work was begun by government employees in New 

 Hampshire. One man was sent to the state at first and on 

 August 12 another was furnished. Systematic scouting was 

 at once begun in the towns in which the moth was discovered 

 the previous year, with the following result : In Seabrook 

 were found twenty colonies and more than 300 egg-clusters ; 

 in Hampton Falls fifteen colonies and a total of 140 egg- 

 clusters; in Hampton nearly sixty colonies and over 550 

 egg-clusters; in North Hampton over forty colonies and 

 about 400 egg-clusters, and in Rye about seventy-five 

 colonies and over 1,400 egg-clusters. 



Curiously enough, this record would seem to indicate 

 that the gipsy moth is more plentiful as the distance 

 increases from the badly infested centers in Massachusetts, 

 but this cannot be taken as a sound generalization, since 

 when the scouting commenced in late July there were still 

 many of the caterpillars crawling, and there are undoubt- 

 edly very many egg-clusters in the first named towns which 



