Education Department Bulletin 



Published fortnightly by the University of the State of New York 



Entered as second-class matter June 24, igo8, at the Post Office at Albany, N. Y., under the 

 act of July 16, 1894 



No. 433 ALBANY, N. Y. October 15, 1908 



New York State Museum 



John M. Clarke, Director 

 Ephraim Porter Felt, State Entomologist 



Museum bulletin 124 

 23d REPORT OF THE STATE ENTOMOLOGIST 1907 



To John M. Clarke, Director of Science Division 



I have the honor of presenting herewith my report on injurious 

 and other insects of the State of New York for the )^ear ending 

 October 15, 1907. 



The climatic conditions of 1907 have departed widely from those 

 of normal years and, as a result, the development of animal and 

 plant life was exceptionally late. Warm weather came on very 

 rapidly and all vegetation grew at such a rate that insects appeared 

 unable to inflict material damage in many cases, consequently, 

 there has been a remarkable dearth of injurious outbreaks, par- 

 ticularly in the early part of the year, and presumably due largely 

 to this cause. An exceptional event was the capture by Dr Theo- 

 dore P. Bailey of this city, of two specimens of the exceedingly 

 rare Leucobrephos brephoides Walk. [pi. 2, fig. i ] , 

 the specimens being taken the last of April in St Lawrence county 

 and deposited in the State Museum. 



Fruit tree insects. The San Jose scale is one of the most 

 serious insect enemies of the horticulturist. The spread of earliei 

 years has continued, and in places where very little effort has been 

 made to check its ravages, the scale has become remarkably abundant 

 and in some instances at least, practically ruined the entire crop. 

 Our experiments of earlier years show very clearly that a lime- 

 sulfur wash is thoroughly effective in destroying the scale as well 



