INSECT NOTES FOR 1907 

 Edith M. Patch. 



The annual bulletin published under the title of Insect Notes 

 is a record of such insects of Maine as come particularly to 

 the notice of the Station during the season. It is not designed 

 primarily as a remedial measure bulletin, as advice of this char- 

 acter is sent largely to suit the individual needs either by per- 

 sonal correspondence or wherever possible by popular economic 

 circulars which are kept constantly in print for this purpose. 

 P'or notice of the species recorded in Insect Notes we are in 

 a great measure indebted to people all over the State who send 

 specimens for identification which are frequently of much inter- 

 est. Although the Station would be glad to keep in touch with 

 the insect life in every part of the State, its entomological work 

 is often concentrated for an entire season in a few places and 

 thus for information concerning local outbreaks we are depend- 

 ent many times upon data volunteered by correspondents. To 

 those people who have thus aided the Station for the current 

 year, the present bulletin is in itself an acknowledgment. 



Where definite lines of work are in progress, notes upon 

 insects outside these definite lines must be more or less inci- 

 dental and the most significant of these are brought together 

 annually in a bulletin of miscellaneous Insect Notes. 



The Gipsy and Brown-Tail Moths. 

 The two insects most to be dreaded in the State, the brown - 

 tail and the gipsy moths, are discussed so fully in so much 

 easily available and widely distributed literature* that they are 

 merely mentioned here by way of constantly keeping the danger 

 from them in mind. The success with which they have been 

 so far combated in places in which they have been most numer- 

 ous in this State should in no wise serve as an excuse for less 

 vigilance, but rather as a stimulus to the continuation of, the 

 most rigid measures. Any temporary negligence with either 



* Maine Agr. Exp. Sta. Circulars and Bulletins ; Maine Dept. of Agri- 

 culture, Augusta, Circulars and Bulletins ; U. S. Bureau of Entomology, 

 Washington, D. C, Circulars and Bulletins. 



