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trees. May 17. Cankerworms have made their appearance on the 

 appletrees in this vicinity. The gooseberry and currant bushes begin to 

 show the work of the currant worm [Pteronus ribesii]. May 24. 



Montgomery county (Dr S. H. French, Amsterdam) — The forest 

 tent-caterpillar [Clisiocampa disstria] caused some damage here 

 last year; and we shall probably suffer much more the present season. 

 Ap. 12. May 6 I found nests of appletree tent-caterpillars [Clisio- 

 campa americana] on choke cherry bushes outside the city. The 

 nests were about 2 inches in diameter, and the caterpillars were very slug- 

 gish but were active when warmed up. May 9. Appletree tent-cater- 

 pillars appear to be less in number than for several years past. No effort 

 is being made to destroy the forest tent-caterpillars. May 22. There 

 have been practically no forest tent- caterpillars in this city. June n. 



Niagara county (R. H. Darrison, Lockport) — Farmers think that 

 the recent cold has simply retarded the development of the caterpillars, 

 and they think that there will be an unusually large number of appletree 

 tent-caterpillars [C lis io camp a americana]. May n. Tent-cater- 

 pillars are growing rapidly and are present in great numbers south of the 

 city. May 20 one nest was found with 230 two thirds grown caterpillars. 

 May 24. The caterpillar pest has been pretty well controlled in this 

 vicinity by spraying and destroying the nests. June 2. Cankerworms 

 are doing considerable mischief to appletrees in many places in this part 

 of the state where the trees have not been protected. June 9. The two 

 asparagus beetles, Crioceris asparagi and C. 12-punctata, 

 are present in this vicinity. A pest is feeding on the green fruit, eating 

 into the young apples from the outside [in all probability the palmer 

 worm, Yp sol oph u s pometellus]. July 26. 



Oneida county (Mrs M. S. Miller, Aldercreek) — The roadsides are 

 much whitened by caterpillar tents, the nests being not only on trees 

 and shrubs but also on milkweed, grasses and any green thing. 

 [This is the cherry Tortrix, Cacoecia cerasivorana]. Potato 

 beetles [Doryphora 10-lineataJ were never worse. June 21. 

 The woolly elm aphid [Schizoneura americana] is disfiguring 

 the leaves of a young elm. The cherry Tortrix continues to be abundant 

 along the roadsides. June 27. Potato beetles are not numerous and 

 grasshoppers are few. July 16. The monarch butterfly [Anosia 

 plexippus] is present in very great numbers. Aug. 15. 



Onondaga county (Mrs A. M. A. Jackson,Warner) — I can not see 

 that the cold weather has had much effect on the appletree tent-cater- 



