REPORT OF THE STATE ENTOMOLOGIST I9OO IOI3 



in this locality about Ap. 12, and they are just as numerous as last year, 

 if not more so. May 12. I have noticed on the fruit trees many dead 

 caterpillars, which, I think, is due to the cold weather of April and the 

 first days of May. A few asparagus beetles [Crioceris asparagi] 

 were observed today for the first time this season. May 19. About a 

 week ago I noticed on a young peachtree that some kind of a bud worm 

 was attacking the unfolding leaf buds [probably Anarsia linea- 

 t el 1 a]. Many of the young apple and peartrees are covered with green 

 plant lice. May 25. 



Madison county (C. A. Owen, Munnsville) — The frosts have injured 

 the apple and forest tent-caterpillars [Clisiocampa americana, C. 

 d i s s t r i a] some, but I am unable to ascertain how much. In some 

 localities they have been hurt more than in others. Appletree caterpillar 

 tents are being quite generally destroyed in this section. ]May 17. A 

 farmer told me yesterday that last year the forest tent-caterpillars stripped a 

 piece of wheat that grew near the woods. May 24. They are very 

 abundant on the hills, but in the valley they are not one hundredth part 

 as thick as last year. The late spring frosts seemed to be heavier in the 

 valley, and numerous places can be seen where the caterpillars hatched 

 and began to move and then were killed by the cold. June i. There is 

 not much change to report. In one place the forest tent-caterpillars 

 have left a piece of woods in a body, going across the road in an almost 

 solid mass toward a stone wall, though no trees were within three quarters 

 of a mile. Another man says that the caterpillars have left the woods 

 and attacked a nearby red raspberry patch. June 8. The tent-cater- 

 pillars of both species are nearly all gone. They have worked in strips 

 here and there. Some of the caterpillars dropped out of their leaves 

 after they were unable to crawl, and perished. June 21. 



Monroe county (Lewis Hooker, Rochester) — Appletree tent-cater- 

 pillar [Clisiocampa americana] eggs have hatched within the 

 past week, and the larvae are building their tents, apparently as numerous 

 as in previous seasons. The plum Lecanium is also developing very 

 rapidly, and on our trees it is very numerous. May 5 . The pistol and cigar- 

 case bearers [Coleophora malivorella and C. fletcherella] 

 have commenced their depredations on the appletrees. The bud moth 

 [Tmetocera ocellana] has also commenced feeding on the buds. 

 May II. The cold, rainy weather has not affected the tent-caterpillars. 

 May 12. Nymphs of pearpyslla [Psylla pyri cola] have appeared. 

 Case-bearers and bud moths are doing considerable damage to apple- 



