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appear by a few days Ap. 27. I have found many egg clusters with 

 more than 250 eggs. May 4. Your request for information concerning 

 the effect of the recent cold and rain upon the tent-caterpillars was re- 

 ceived. At 5 o'clock I found a colony which at first glance appeared 

 dead. Closer observation showed that they were only dormant, and the 

 apparently dead ones were the cast skins of the first molt. In half an 

 hour after bringing the caterpillars into a warm room, they began to 

 move and now, 7.30, they are as lively as they can be. They are now 

 j\ of an inch long. Last night the temperature fell to 29^ F,, and 

 at 6.30 lliis morning the surface of the ground was frozen. Still farther : 

 I have a colony of the caterpillars which I found just hatched out 13 

 days ago that have been kept in the temperature of the out of doors 

 air, without food, and they are still well and in good working order, 

 though a little thin. May 11. The young caterpillars mentioned in 

 my previous report lived 16 days without food. May 18. A trip 

 about the village shows only here and there slight evidences of the cat- 

 erpillars, which are now about \ inch long. May 25. The forest tent- 

 caterpillars are quite injurious in some sections of Glens Falls, specially 

 in parts where they had not been numerous the preceding season. The 

 caterpillars in these places are i{ inches long. May 28. Forest tent- 

 caterpillars are not abundant in the village, particularly where they were 

 diligently fought last season. Natural enemies as well as artificial means 

 of destruction have brought this about. There are more of the pests in 

 South Glens Falls and Sandyhill. June 8. The forest tent-caterpillars 

 appear to have all disappeared. Appletree tent-caterpillars have not 

 been so few for years. Neighboring villages have had plenty of them . 

 The rose beetle [M aero d act ylus subspinosus] is abundant on 

 daisies and at times does great damage to roses. One gentleman has had 

 his grape blossoms entirely destroyed by it. June 29. 



Washington county (H. L. Beadle, West Cambridge)— Apple 

 aphis [Aphis m a I i] is very abundant. May 2 . Appletree tent-cater- 

 pillars [Clisiocampa americana] were present m usual numbers 

 a week ago, but this morning I found only 22 nests, and 50% of the 

 caterpillars in those were dead. May 11. Closer examination shows 

 that tent-caterpillars are very scarce. The cankerworm has appeared in 

 destructive numbers in a few localities. 



Wayne county (C. H. Stuart, Newark) — 1 fail to find that the cold 

 did any harm to the appletree tent-caterpillars [Clisiocampa ameri- 

 cana], though some of our men think such to be the case. I find them 



