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THE INSECT RECORD FOR I9OI 39 



ited numbers, though it 

 only occasionally becomes 

 seriously destructive. An 

 account of its life history 

 will be found in Bulletin 

 33 of this station. 



Among the minor inju- 

 ries reported during the 

 season the following may 

 be briefly mentioned : An 

 injury to strawberry plants 

 at Centre Sandwich bv " a 

 greenish worm," probably 

 the strawberry slug ; ^ in- 

 jury to twigs and canes by 

 the eggs of the snowy tree 

 cricket, -^ reported by Mr. 

 J. F. Hobbs ; an attack of 

 red spiders^ on morning- 

 glories and gourds at Pier- 

 mont, reported by Mr. Ar- 



,, o -ti 4-\ 1 f Fig. 9. Apple leaf denuded by Fall Web- 



thur bmith an outbreak or ^ ^^ ^ 



worms. 



plant lice upon plum trees 



at Winchester, reported by Dr. A. H. Taft ; an injury to rasp- 

 berry roots at Plymouth, apparently due to nematode worms, 

 reported from Plymouth by Mr. A. T. Atwood ; an attack 

 upon grass roots by white grubs, ^ reported from West Rum- 

 ney by Mr. F. H. Elliott. The various species of grasshop- 

 pers seem to have been no more destructive than usual. 



THE PESTS THAT MENACE US 



New Hampshire has been fortunate during recent years in 

 escaping the attacks of several lately introduced insect pests 

 of first importance, which have ravaged other states. The 

 most notable of these are the elm leaf-beetle, the San Jose 



1 Harpiphorns tjtaculatus Norton. 

 ^ (Eanthus niveus Serville. 

 8 Tetrajtychus — sp. 

 * Lachnosterna — sp. 



