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straight along through the season. Later in the season, when 

 we can get apples, we shall not have to change the exhibit so 

 often. 1 am in hopes those other fruits, more perishable fruits, 

 we shall be able to ship from here and have them reach Buffalo 

 in good condition. There is no reason why we should not." 

 The President: "The next is the report of the Com- 

 mittee on Injurious Insects, by Prof. W. E. Britton." 



REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON INJURIOUS INSECTS 



The Insect Committee for 1900 has few serious insect dep- 

 redations to report to the Society at this meeting. This does 

 not necessarily mean that such attacks were rare or unknown 

 during the season, but rather that they were not reported to 

 your committee by the members. The only new thing that is 

 liable to assume the nature of a pest is the peach -leaf mite, and 

 too little is known as yet about this organism to warrant any 

 predictions in regard to its future behavior. We beg leave, 

 therefore, to place before you a few notes regarding some of the 

 old insects and the methods of destroying them. 



LEAF-EATING INSECTS 



The "apple-worm," i. e., the larva of the codling moth, 

 Carpocapsa pomonella, L., was found inside an Abundance plum 

 and feeding on it. The forest tent -caterpillar, Clisiocampa diss- 

 tria, Hiibu, was found feeding upon apple foliage at Walling- 

 ford. The Abbott sphinx, Thyreus ahbotii, Swains, was re- 

 ceived from Bridgeport, where the larva was devouring the 

 foliage of the grape. A small brown beetle, Anomala lucicola, 

 Fabr., was feeding upon grape leaves in Suffield; and another 

 lighter-colored species, Colaspis brunnea, Fabr., had been injur- 

 ing the foliage of the grape and strawberry at Mt. Carmel. 



The caterpillar of the "gray plume moth," Oxyptilus perisceli- 

 dactylus, Fitch, was received from Yalesville. This insect feeds 

 in the unfolding leaves of the grape-vine, drawing them together 

 with a web to form a nest. As it usually eats away the bud, the 

 season's growth is arrested. In a small plantation the cater- 



