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cabbage fields. One farmer reports a loss of 6000 plants on three 

 acres. The complaint is very general in this section. June 20. A 

 webworm [?Tetralopha] is very abundant on maple, elm and 

 other forest trees in the vicinity of Dansville, though not so 

 numerous as last year. Sep. 20. 



Orange county (J. M. Dolph, Port Jervis) — Very few injurious 

 insects have appeared this year. Even plant lice are relatively 

 scarce ; and the appletree tent caterpillar [Clisiocampa 

 americana Fabr.] has almost entirely disappeared. There 

 has been comparative freedom from insect pests this year, which 

 may possibly be attributed to the cold, wet weather. The aver- 

 age temperature in this section for July and August 1901 was 

 74.2° while the average for the same months this year was 69.2°, 

 a decrease during the past season of 5°. Sep. 3. 



Queens county (C. L. Allen, Floral Park) — Colorado potato 

 beetles [Doryphora 10-1 in eat a Say] have been conspicu- 

 ous by their absence, and not one farmer in ten has had occasion 

 to use paris green for the purpose of controlling them. Not a 

 cabbage worm [Pieris rapae Linn.] has been seen. The 

 heavy rains of April killed all the butterflies, and now we see 

 only one or two. The season has been marked by an almost 

 entire absence of the more common insect pests. Oct. 3. 



Rensselaer county (W. O. Hitchcock, Pittstown) — The apple- 

 tree tent caterpillars [Clisiocampa americana Fabr.] 

 are abundant and very destructive, since the foliage is backward 

 and their ravages are more apparent. They do not seem to have 

 been injured in the slightest by the late frost. Plum curculio 

 [Conotrachelus nenuphar Herbst.] pupae are unusually 

 abundant in the soil about the trees. May 23. Asparagus beetles 

 [Crioceris asparagi Linn.] are abundant. Apples are 

 nearly all dropping on account of the worms. [Probably the 

 codling moth larva, Carpocapsa pomonella Linn.] 

 Aug. 13. One mantis [Mantis religiosa Linn.] was found 

 nearly grown on Sep. 28, and a neighbor who saw it stated that 

 she had observed several of them. Sep. 30. 



Rockland county (S. B. Huested, Blauvelt) — The corn worm 

 [Chelymorpha argus Licht.] appears to be doing consider- 

 able damage. The fall webworm [Hyphantria textor 

 Harris] is quite plentiful in this section. Colorado potato beetles 



