REPORT OF THE STATE ENTOMOLOGIST 1902 169 



Introduction {continued) page 



Extension work 702 



Collection of insects 702 



Pan-American collection 703 



New quarters 703 



Voluntary observers 704 



Acknowledgments 704 



Injurious insects 



Cecidomyia destructor Say, Hessian fly 7* 5 



Notes for the year 731 



Fruit tree pests 731 



Shade and forest tree pests 738 



Garden and other insects 749 



Unusual abundance of southern forms : 757 



Experimental work against the San Jose scale insect 761 



Summary of experiments 775 



Voluntary entomologic service. . . 776 



Summaries of reports 776 



List of publications of the entomologist 800 



Contributions to collection 808 



Appendix: Entomologic exhibit at the Pan-American Exposition 1901 825 



Explanation of plates 899 



Plates 1-6 face 900 



Index 901 



Scale Insects of Importance (American Gardening, Sep. 13, 1902, 



22:593-94) 



Reprint of portions of Museum bulletin 46 on above group. 

 Asparagus Beetle (Country Gentleman, Oct. 2, 1902, 67:810) 



Remedies for Crioceris asparagi Linn. 

 Keport on Insects (N. Y. State Fruit-Growers Ass'n Kep't. 1902. 



6th An. Kep't 1902. p.210-18) 



Brief notes on the unusual occurrence of a number of southern species. 

 Report of the Committee on Insects (Eastern N. Y. Hortic. Soc. 



6th An. Rep't 1902. p.210-18) 



Some general observations on the abundance of southern forms are given 

 together with notes on the value of trap lanterns, and the results of recent experi- 

 ments with various insecticides against San Jose scale. The injuries inflicted by 

 various bark borers are briefly recorded, and the following insects are noticed: 

 Hickory bark borer, Scolytus 4-spinosus Say; elm leaf beetle, G a 1 - 

 erucella luteola Mull ; grapevine Fidia, Fidia viticida Walsh ; 

 forest tent caterpillar, Clisiocampa disstria Hiibn. ; C e n o p i s 

 diluticostana Walsm. ; carrot rust fly, Psila rosae Fabr. ; rose scale 

 insect, Aulacaspis rosae Sandb. ; European praying mantis, Mantis 

 religiosa Linn. 



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