INSECT ATTACKS AND MISCELLANEOUS OBSERVATIONS. 



A number of the following notices were contained in the Report of 

 the State Entomologist to the Regents of the University, S. N. Y., for 

 the year 1885, as published in the Thirty-ninth Annual Report of the 

 New York State Museum of Natural History, No separates of the Ento- 

 mologist's Report having been printed for general distribution, and 

 the edition of the State Museum Report being quite small, portions 

 of the former are herewith republished, that they may reach the 

 agriculturists for whose benefit they were primarily prepared. 



The Canker-worm. 



Anisopteryx vernata (Peck). 

 It really seems that the canker-worm is becoming an annual pest 

 of the orchards of the State of New York. While the New England 

 orchards have been for many years ravaged by it, and the noble elms, 

 so long the boast of eastern villages, destroyed, and it has also been 



Fig. 33.— Larva and eggs of the Fig. 34.— a, b, male and female moths of A. 



spring canker-worm — Anisopte- vernata; c, enlarged joints of female antenna; 

 byx veenata. ( After Riley. ) d, joint of female abdomen; e, ovipositor. 



very destructive in several of the Western States, our own State, for 

 some reason, has been almost exempt from its depredations. Within 

 the last few years, occasional instances of its occurrence have been 

 reported. Last year [1884] they were received from Pound- 

 ridge and Pleasantville, in Westchester county, where they inflicted 

 damage to the apple crop to the amount of thousands of dollars 

 (Country Gentleman of July 10, 1884, p. 577). The present year, report 

 is received of serious injuries from them in Wayne county. A gentle- 

 man writes: 



" The orchards are all being destroyed in this part of the State by 

 the canker-worm. Thrifty orchards were cut down last winter, and 

 there will be many more sacrificed if there can not be found some way 

 to stop the havoc." 



