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  NEW 
  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  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 
  11. 
  

  

  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 
  [Clisiocampa 
  americana]. 
  May 
  11. 
  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 
  solop 
  hu 
  s 
  pome 
  tell 
  us]. 
  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 
  lo-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 
  [A 
  no 
  si 
  a 
  

   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- 
  

  

  