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estra picta] were found in small numbers on a red rasp- 

 berry bush. June 21. Squash bugs [Anasa tristis] are 

 very numerous and iu some gardens have destroyed all the 

 vines. The small black flea beetle [Epitrix cucumeris] 

 is very abundant in some bean fields. The work of what is 

 evidently a Thrips is very plain in many timothy fields. The 

 Hessian fly is not causing so much damage in this vicinity as 

 was at first feared. July 10. The cherry fruit fly [R h a g o - 

 letis cingulata] has caused some injury in this vicinity, 

 and I have been able to catch the flies on the fruit. I have 

 gone over my cherry orchard twice and a part of it three times 

 and have gathered from it the affected fruit, which was then 

 put into vessels containing water, and the maggots drowned. 

 I picked 25 pounds of infested cherries from four trees, and 

 bushels of wormy ones, in my orchard. Cucumber flea beetles 

 are quite injurious to potato vines. The Hessian fly has com- 

 pletely destroyed all the barley and spring wheat in this sec- 

 tion. Winter wheat in the center of the county is good, while 

 at each end it is badly damaged by the fly. July 24. 



Tompkins county (C. E. Chapman, Peruville) — Appletree tent- 

 caterpillars [Clisiocampa americana] appeared May 

 1, and on the 9th they were very abundant. May 14. Hessian 

 fly larvae [Cecidomyia destructor] are in nearly every 

 wheat stalk, from one to four in each. Many fields are nearly 

 ruined, and the yield will not be more than one half the usual 

 crop. The wheat also appears to be damaged by an insect 

 which eats the straw nearly in two about an inch from the 

 surface of the ground. It is probably the work of the sawfly 

 [?Cephus pygmaeus]. Forest and appletree tent-cater- 

 pillars are on all the trees in this section but not in sufficient 

 numbers to cause much damage. June 25. Chinch bugs 

 [Blissus leucopterus] occur here and there in small 

 spots on different farms. One piece of millet was badly in- 

 jured. They have also attacked grass among blackberry bushes. 

 Grasshoppers are very thick, but wet weather appears to keep 

 them in check. Squash and other vines have been nearly de- 



