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the nests with a small, conical brush on the end of a light pole, or 

 an ordinary bamboo pole with the tip slightly roughened can be used 

 almost equally well. All that is necessary is to bring the end of the 

 pole in contact with the lower portion of the nest and then with a 

 twisting and elevating movement roU the nest and its contents 

 around the end of the pole. This, if carefully done, will result in 

 removing practically all the caterpillars with the nest. The latter 

 should of course be crushed or otherwise disposed of so as to destroy 

 the inhabitants. 



Ten-lined inch worm (Erannis tiliaria Harr.). An out- 

 break by this rather common caterpillar was reported from Oliverea, 

 Ulster county, by Mr R. F. Pearsall, who stated that the pest was 

 very destructive to both orchard and woodland trees. It was 

 associated with the spring canker worm in defoliating maple and 

 elm trees near the village of Greenwich, according to a report trans- 

 mitted by Principal C. L. Morey. This occasionally injurious form 

 nearly defoliated an orchard at Munnsville, Madison county, in 1899. 



The caterpillar is easily recognized by its orange head and yellow- 

 ish body, the latter marked dorsally with a series of ten fine, some- 

 what broken, wavy, black lines. It becomes full grown about the 

 middle of June and has a length of one and one-fourth inches. The 

 pests then desert the trees and transform to pupae in earthen cells 

 some five or six inches below the surface, the moths issuing late in 

 October or early in November. The female is wingless and has a 

 yellowish body sprinkled with black dots, while the male has a wing 

 spread of nearly two inches, the forewings being a rusty buff sprinkled 

 with brown spots and with two wavy, brown lines, the inner one 

 often indistinct. There was a considerable flight of this moth in 

 Albany October 2 ist, in association with the cotton moth, Alabama 

 argillacea Hubn., and it is probable that this insect was equally, 

 if not more, abundant at Kingston, since specimens were received 

 from Dr J. R. Gillett of that city. The caterpillar of this species, 

 like the allied much more common and destructive canker worms, 

 can be easily destroyed by early and thorough spraying with a poison, 

 such as arsenate of lead, using 4 pounds or even more to 50 gallons 

 of water. 



Green fruit worm (Xylina antennata Walk.) . Adults 

 of this species were received the latter part of March and early in 

 April from Mr E. B. Jansen, Kingston, and the indications are 

 that we narrowly escaped an outbreak by this insect upon soft 

 maples comparable with that of 1898, or the more extended defolia- 

 tions of 191 1. Caterpillars of this species are also known as green 



