10 



formerly, it is quite consoling to know that the warfare against it has 

 also become more general. Almost every fruit-grower has at last come 

 to the forced conclusion that warfare against this insect, at least, has 

 become an absolute necessity, and has accordingly instituted a rigor- 

 ous fight against it. The arseuious spray is the almost universal 

 remedy resorted to with our fruit-growers here in Nebraska, as it is 

 in other localities. Either London purple or Paris green are the poisons 

 used, and where applied properly always result favorably to the or- 

 chardist. 



THE GREEN-STRIPED MAPLE WORM. 



The Green-striped Maple-worm (Anisota rubicunda) appeared quite 

 numerously again in the towns and cities of Nebraska, and has done 

 much injury to the Soft Maples (Acer saccharinum) growing along their 

 streets. Here in Lincoln, the first or spring brood of larvae was sufifi. 

 ciently numerous to defoliate many of the largest trees before they 

 had become fully matured, and in that manner proved to be quite 

 effectual towards self-extermination. Many of the larvae actually 

 starved to death j while others were so weakened from starvation that 

 they either died in the chrysalis state, or else were so exhausted when 

 they emerged as moths that there was but little egg-laying for a sec- 

 ond brood. Some of the neighboring cities and towns were less for- 

 tunate, and had a much more plentiful fall brood of the larvae, and 

 hence will be well supplied with the insect next spring unless something 

 unforeseen prevents it. 



Considerable has been done in the way of remedies by the citizens of 

 Lincoln against the second brood. Many of the moths were gathered 

 and destroyed before they had time to deposit their eggs and later on 

 in the season spraying the trees with London purple and Paris green 

 was resorted to with good results. 



While a moderately dry summer usually has the tendency to increase 

 the number of most of our injurious insects, several such years imme- 

 diately following one another have the opposite effect. So it has been 

 with the summer which has just closed. The drought was so very 

 marked that even the more hardy insect life was sensibly affected by 

 its severity. Such species as had been favored by the scarcity of their 

 more frail parasites during several years of moderate drought, this year 

 were themselves, to a certain degree, sensibly affected by its continu- 

 ance and severity. 



LOCUSTS OR GRASSHOPPERS. 



Locusts or grasshoppers of several species were quite numerous in 

 certain localities, especially in cities away from the destructive influ- 

 ence of fowls and such other predaceous animals as are always at hand 

 in the country ready to " gobble up " various insects. These locusts did 

 some damage, of course, but not nearly so much as was done by them 



