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estra picta] were found in small numbers on a red rasp- 
berry bush. June 21. Squash bugs [Anasa tristis] are 
very numerous and in some gardens have destroyed all the 
vines. The small black flea beetle [Epitrix cucumeris|] 
is very abundant in some bean fields. The work of what is 
evidently a Thrips is very plain in many timothy fields. The 
Hessian fly is not causing so much damage in this vicinity as 
was at first feared. July 10. The cherry fruit fly [Rhago- 
letis cingulata] has caused some injury in this vicinity, 
and I have been able to catch the flies on the fruit. I have 
gone over my cherry orchard twice and a part of it three times 
and have gathered from it the affected fruit, which was then 
put into vessels containing water, and the maggots drowned.. 
I picked 25 pounds of infested cherries from four trees, and 
bushels of wormy ones, in my orchard. Cucumber flea beetles 
are quite injurious to potato vines. The Hessian fly has com- 
pletely destroyed all the barley and spring wheat in this sec- 
tion. Winter wheat in the center of the county is good, while 
at each end it is badly damaged by the fly. July 24. . 
Tompkins county (C. E. Chapman, Peruville)—Appletree tent- 
caterpillars [Clisiocampa americana] appeared May 
1, and on the 9th they were very abundant. May 14. Hessian 
fly larvae [Cecidomyia destructor] are in nearly every 
wheat stalk, from one to four in each. Many fields are nearly 
ruined, and the yield will not be more than one half the usual 
crop. The wheat also appears to be damaged by an insect 
which eats the straw nearly in two about an inch from the 
surface of the ground. It is probably the work of the sawfly 
[?Cephus pygmaeus]. Forest and appletree tent-cater- 
pillars are on all the trees in this section but not in sufficient 
numbers to cause much damage. June 25. Chinch bugs 
[Blissus leucopterus] occur here and there in small 
spots on different farms. One piece of millet was badly in- 
jured. They have also attacked grass among blackberry bushes. 
Grasshoppers are very thick, but wet weather appears to keep 
them in check. Squash and other vines have been nearly de- 
