ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



NOTES ON INSECTS OF THE ZEAR, DIVISION NO. 2, BAY OF QUINTE 



DISTRICT. 



By J. D. Evans, Trenton, Ont. 



Throughout this district the only crop which has suffered to any extent from insect 

 foes'during the past season (1898) is the seed pea crop. 



For a number of years the cultivation of fancy or seed pease in this section for foreign 

 markets has been very extensive, while a good demand and high prices ruled for such, 

 extra precautions were taken by growers to have the weevil ( Bruchus pisorum) killed by the 

 seedsmen before they arrived at maturity or had destroyed the pease ; but during the past 

 three or four years, when prices have become lower, ordinary grades of pease have been 

 grown to a greater extent than formerly and the grower becoming careless in housing and 

 dilatory in marketing his crop, the weevil has greatly increased in numbers. This oc- 

 curs not so much along the Lake front of the County of Prince Edward as in inland sec- 

 tions. While many farms may be entirely free from the pest, others will lose fro n 15 

 to 30 per cent., while instances occur, although rarely, ia which the loss is 40 per cent. 



Another destructive agency to the pea crop is a blight said to be caused by a fungous 

 growth which oftentimes will utterly destroy a whole field in a single night. This 

 disease has been very prevalent during the past season and has caused a great loss to the 

 farming community. 



NOTES ON INSECTS OF THE YEAR, DIVISION NO. 4, NIAGARA DISTRICT. 

 Br A. H. Kilman, Ridgkway, Ont. 



The past season has not been marked by any great insect depredations, at least as 

 far as my personal observation and inquiry have reached, in this locality — Niagara Dis- 

 trict — but variations in the occurrence of insect pests, pointing either to an increase or a 

 decrease or in the more startling direction of the approach of new foes, is always of in- 

 terest to students of Eatomology and to farmers and fruit growers. 



Oontary to expectation, the Northern Army- worm, Leucania unipuncta, was less in 

 evidence than during 1896 7. In late August, when the imagines of this insect are nearly 

 always to be found, none were observed. The grass-hopper, (CalopterMS femur-rubrum) 

 was also conspicuously absent. 



Cabbage butter-flies Pieris rapae) during the drought in the earlier part of the season, 

 were scarce but late cabbages were much injured by the larvse of this insect. Similar 

 observations were made in regard to the Colorado potato-beetle. ' Early potatoes were not 

 materially injured and unwary gardeners, deceived by the non-appearance of the slugs, re- 

 laxed their efforts and paid the penalty by seeing the plants of the later crop " e ailing 

 under bare poles." 



Raspberry canes have been seriously injured in some localities, by a cane borer, prob- 

 ably Oberea bimaculata. 



An inconspicuous green worm, doubtless the Raspberry Saw Fiy (Selandria rubi, 

 Harris), operated in spots all over the fruit section, completely destroying some patches of 

 red-raspberries near Niagara Falls. 



Neglected vineyards on sandy soil suffered an entire loss of crop from the ravages of 

 the Rose Beetle (Macrodactylus subspinosus, Fabr.) 



In this locality plums failed to blossom. The Ourculio (Conotrachelus nenuphar), 

 attacked the later cherries with the result that the fruit was wormy and useless. 



Apples, especially in neglected and unthrifty orchards, were scarred by insects and 

 fungi and wormy by larvse of Codling moth. 



