REPORT OF STATE ENTOMOLOGIST I599 573^ 



9. Trees about six miles north are nearly defoliated by forest tent cater- 

 pillars [Clisiocampa disstria] though there are scarcely any 

 in the immediate vicinity. Horn fly [Haematobia serrata] is 

 present in large numbers. Many orchards are literally covered with the 

 scurfy bark louse [Chionaspis furfurus]. June 3. Colorado 

 potato beetles are abundant and doing much damage. Grasshoppers 

 are very numerous. July 7. Grasshoppers are doing much damage to 

 oats. July 31. White grubs are plentiful in old meadows and hoed 

 crops. Aug. 12. 



Wayne county (C. H. Stuart, Newark) — Both species of asparagus 

 •beetles [Crioceris asparagi, C. 12-punctata] occur here. 

 The work of the wheat midge [PDiplosis tritici] was extremely 

 bad last year. Apple tree tent caterpillars [Clisiocampa ameri- 

 c a n a] are doing great damage; we have found it necessary to send 

 men with ladders to kill them by hand. May 20. Apple tree tent cater- 

 pillars are now full grown and seeking places to spin up. June 2. 

 Larvae of apple tree tent caterpillars have disappeared, but forest tent 

 caterpillars [Clisiocampa disstria] are nearly as abundant on 

 walks as the other species have been. June 7. Larvae of raspberry saw 

 fly [Monophadnoides rubi] are doing much damage, the 

 leaves of the infested patch looked today like those of a badly infested 

 currant bush. There is hardly a leaf in the field without several holes 

 in it, and most of the older ones are eaten to threads. June 12. Work 

 of the fly [Cecidomyia destructor] is very bad m wheat, a 

 great amount of it being down. July 11. There is no evidence of work 

 by the wheat midge, the clover midge [Cecidomyia legu- 

 m i n i c o 1 a] and the onion thrips [Thrips tabaci]. The 12 

 spotted asparagus beetle seems to have disappeared. Nearly one third 

 of the wheat is down and the damage may be perhaps one fourth of the 

 entire yield, the result of Hessian fly work. It was specially bad on 

 early-sown fields. July 25. A small green larva [subsequently identified 

 by Mr Chittenden as the red banded leaf roller L o p h o d e r u s t r i - 

 f er a n a] was found eating the green popcorn; it has attacked about 

 27% of the ears and 37% of the corn on the ear is destroyed. Sep. 19 



Yates county (C. R. Crosby, Crosby) — Giape vine flea beetles 

 [Haltica chalybea], though nearly as abundant as last season, 

 have not done the damage they did last year, as growers knew what to 

 expect and caught them as soon as they appeared. The warm weather 

 lessened their destructiveness by bringing the foliage out faster. No 



