REPORT OF THE STATE ENTOMOLOGIST I9IO 7I 



Observations on the House Fly. Economic Entomology Journal, 

 1910, 3:24-26 



Summary of experiments showing that the house fly, M u s c a domes- 

 t i c a Linn, does not invade darkened apartments. 

 Some Tree Crickets. Country Gentleman, Feb. 24, 1910, 75:182^^ 



Oecanthus niveus DeG. appears to be limited mostly to apple trees, 

 while O. nigricornis Walk, and O. quadripunctatus Beutm. 

 have been recorded as the species injurious to raspberry and blackberry 

 bushes. Preventive measures are discussed. 

 Control of Flies and Other Household Insects. New York State 



Museum Bulletin 136, 1910, p. 1-53 (Issued Feb. 26, 1910, a 



revised and extended edition of Bulletin 129). 



Contents 



PAGE PAGE 



Introduction 5 Fabric pests 28 



Disease carriers 6 Clothes moths 28 



Typhoid or house fly 6 Carpet beetles 30 



Fruit flies 16 Silver fish, bristle tail or fish 



Malarial mosquito 17 moth 33 



Yellow fever mosquito 20 Book louse 33 



Bedbug 20 White ants 34 



Annoying forms 22 Crickets 35 



Cluster fly 22 Food pests 35 



Wasps and hornets 23 House ants 35 



House or rain barrel mos- Cockroaches 37 



quito 23 Larder beetle 40 



Salt marsh mosquito 24 Cheese skipper 40 



House fleas 26 Cereal and seed pests 41 



Bedbug hunter 27 Fumigation with hydrocyanic 



House centipede 28 acid gas 48 



Index 51 



Work with the Codling Moth. Country Gentleman, Mar. 3, 1910. 



75 :23o'^ 



A summary comparison of results obtained against codling moth, C a r - 

 pocapsa pomonella Linn., between coarse and fine sprays and one, 

 two and three applications. One thorough application of a mist spray gave 

 98-99 per cent of worm-free fruit. 



Struggle with the Scale. New York Apple Orchards Saved. Rural 

 New Yorker, Mar. 5, 1910, 69:256'^ 



A summary account of the work against San Jose scale, A s p i d i o t u s 

 perniciosus Comst., with special reference to the success of Mr 

 W. H. Hart in his old orchard. 



