REPORT OF THE STATE ENTOMOLOGIST 1901 835 
Treatment: Spray beetles with whale oil soap, 4 pound to 
1 gallon water, dust plants with plaster, ashes, etc.; hand picking. 
Chief accessible articles: Lintner, J. A., state ent. Ist rep’t, ’82. 
p. 221-82; Chittenden, F. H. U.S. dep’t agric. div. ent. Cire. 11, 
2d s. 795. p. 1-4; Marlatt, C. L. U. S. dep’t.agric. Yearbook. ’95. 
p. 396-98. 
10 Appletree tent-caterpillar, Clisiocampa americana 
Fabr. Principal food plants: wild cherry, appletrees. 
Treatment: Collect and destroy egg belts, kill young while 
in nests, spray with poison in early spring. 
Chief accessible articles: Felt, E. P., state ent. 14th rep’t (N. Y. 
suate mus. bul. 23). 798. p. 177-90;,N. Y. state mus. Bul 27. 
299. p. 46-48; Lowe, V. H. N. Y. agric. exp. sta. Bul. 152. 798. 
p. 281-93; Beach, Lowe and Stewart. N. Y. agric. exp. sta. Bul. 
703-09. p. ss0-90; Felt, E. P. N. Y..state agric. soc. Trans..’99. 
59: 271-72. ; 
11 Pimpla conquisitor Say, a parasite on the above. 
12 Gipsy moth, Porthetria dispar Linn. Principal 
food plants: fruit, oak, maple and other forest trees. 
Treatment: Collect and destroy eggs, kill clustered larvae, 
Spray with arsenate of lead. 
Chief accessible articles: Fernald, C. H. Mass. (Hatch) agrie. 
exp. sta. Special bul. Nov. ’89. p. 1-8; Forbush, E. H., and 
Fernald, C.H. Mass. state board agric. Rept’s 1892-1900; Lintner, 
J. A., state ent. 9th rep’t, ’92. p. 420-26; Howard, L. 0. U. S. dep’t 
meric. ent..Bul. 11, n..s. ’97. p. 1-39; Forbush, E. H. U: S. 
Saep 1, asric. div. ent. Bul. 20, n. s. 799. p..104-7;. Felt, E. P., state 
ent. 16th rep’t, ’00 (N. Y. state mus. Bul. 36). p. 955-62. 
13 Brown tail moth, Euproctis chrysorrhoea Linn. 
Principal food plants: pear, apple, quince. 
Treatment: Cut and burn winter nests, spray trees with 
poison. 
Chief accessible articles: Fernald, C. H., and Kirkland, A. H. 
Mass. (Hatch) agric. exp. sta. Special bul. July ’97. p. 1-15; 
U.S. dep’t agric. div. ent. Bul. 17, n. 8. 98. p. 24:32. 
