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has appeared in considerable numbers on gooseberries. Plum scales 

 [Lecanium prunastri] have hatched and are now on the 

 under side of the leaves of the infested trees. June 30. Second brood of 

 pear psylla is not numerous. Plum scale has done little injury. July 20. 

 A large number of maples in Rochester are suffering from the attacks of 

 the sugar maple borer fPlagionotus speciosus]. The infested 

 trees have very scanty foliage this year and are gradually dying. Oct. i. 



Oneida county (Jeanette C. Miller, Aldercreek) — Colorado potato 

 beetles [Doryphora lo-lineata] very numerous. Apple tree 

 tent caterpillars [Clisiocampa americana] have been very 

 abundant. The cherry Tortrix fCacoecia cerasivorana] 

 has spun its nests in almost every roadside bush and is very abundant. 

 June 20. Young grasshoppers are very numerous. There is a second 

 crop of both potato beetles and currant worms [Pteronus ribesii]. 

 July 6. The two last named insects are diminishing in numbers. In 

 Otsego county I saw a large sugar bush of many acres in extent entirely 

 stripped by forest tent caterpillar [Clisiocampa disstria] of 

 upper leaves ; only a few lower branches had any foHage remaining. I 

 heard that there were many similar acres. July 26. Fall web worm 

 [H yphantria cunea] numerous on cherry . and maple trees. 

 Aug. 8 Grasshoppers and other insects pleasingly scarce. Aug. 15. 

 [Lithocolletis aceriella] working in maple leaves to some 

 extent. Sep. 11. 



Onondaga county (Miss A. M. Armstrong, Belle Isle) — Where not 

 destroyed, apple tree tent caterpillars [Clisiocampa americana] 

 have eaten every green leaf and bud. Small measuring worms, probably 

 canker worms, are proving very destructive to apple trees. May 18. 

 The work of canker worms is more general than was supposed last week. 

 May 27. x\pple trees attacked by canker worms completely stripped of 

 foliage. June 2. Potato beetles becoming very numerous. Striped 

 cucumber beetle [Diabrotica vittata] destroying squash, pump- 

 kin, melon and cucumber vines. June 9. Canker worms have now 

 buried themselves to a depth of about 2 inches in the soil about the trees. 

 At Oak wood cemetery the 17 year cicada [C. s e p t e n d e c i m] is 

 present in large numbers, but is doing little damage. Many sparrows were 

 busy feeding on the cicadas. At Onondaga Valley, Syracuse, much the 

 same condition prevailed. Larvae of gra[)e vine flea beetle [Hal tic a 

 c h a 1 y b e aj abundant on grape vines, and considerable damage by 

 them is reported from Baldwinsville. The wheat midge [Diplosis 



