REPORT OP THE STATE ENTOMOLOGIST 1901 793 



on cats and dogs. Potato beetles [Doryphora 10-lin- 

 e a t a] and cabbage worms are very abundant. Aug. 2. The 

 birch leaf Bucculatrix [Bucculatrix canadensis- 

 e 11a] is exceedingly abundant in this vicinity, having skel- 

 etonized the majority of the leaves on almost all the birches 

 in this region. Sep. 12. 



Saratoga county (Miss Rhoda Thompson, Ballston Spa) — There 

 are fewer appletree tent-caterpillars .[Clisiocampa amer- 

 i c a n a] and more plant lice and cutworms than there have 

 been for the last two years. Currant worms [Pteronus 

 r i b e s i i] have also been very abundant. June 7. Rose beetles 

 [Macrodactylus subspinosus] and wireworms are 

 about as abundant as usuaL Squash bugs [Anasa tristis] 

 are present in enormous numbers and are causing considerable 

 injury. July 12. There is a plague of grasshoppers in this 

 vicinity, and they are doing a great deal of mischief. It was 

 found they had cut off from two thirds to three fourths of the 

 grain in a field of oats. Corn has also been much injured. 

 Some farmers are cutting their grain before maturity in order 

 to save it from injury. 



Schenectady county (Paul Roach, Quaker Street) — Forest tent- 

 caterpillars [Clisiocampa disstria] were first observed 

 on the south side of the woods. May 5. Appletree tent-cater- 

 pillars [Clisiocampa americana] and forest tent-cater- 

 pillars will probably be fewer than last year. The cold, wet 

 weather appears to have retarded the hatching of eggs and 

 development of insect life. Bud moth larvae [Tmetocera 

 ocellana] are present in small numbers. May 8. There are 

 only a few appletree tent-caterpillars on the wild cherrytrees. 

 The season has been cold and excessively wet, and not many 

 of the caterpillar eggs appear to have hatched. May 31. 



Schoharie county (John F. Johnson, Breakabeen) — Appletree 

 tent-caterpillars [Clisiocampa americana] were first 

 observed May 1, and forest tent-caterpillars [Clisiocampa 

 disstria] May 7. The former are abundant, and the latter 

 not more than half as numerous as last year. The cold, rainy 



