﻿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 
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   disstria] 
  some, 
  but 
  I 
  am 
  unable 
  to 
  ascertain 
  how 
  much. 
  In 
  some 
  

   locahties 
  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 
  o 
  cell 
  an 
  a] 
  has 
  also 
  commenced 
  feeding 
  on 
  the 
  buds. 
  

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

   May 
  12. 
  Nymphs 
  of 
  pear 
  pyslla 
  [Psylla 
  pyricola] 
  have 
  appeared. 
  

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

  

  