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A hids have increased some on cherry and currants and the apple aphis 

 [Aphis m a 1 i ] is doing some damage. No potato beetles have been 

 Seen. The seco. d brood <-f currant worms has not appeared. June 10. 

 A few f .11 web worms [Hyphantria cunea] have appeared. 

 JuK i. Apple aphis is persistent on young trees, where it is doing some 

 damage. July io Apple aphis still on some trees. July 22. Apple aphis 

 has nearly all disappeared. Aug. 5. 



Warren county (C. L Williams. Glens Falls) — Forest tent cater- 

 pi'lars [Clisiocampa d i s s t r i a ] have done much damage in 

 this place. They are now eating voraciously on hard maple, white elm, 

 basswood and apple trees. At this date there are many caterpillars not 

 half grown. A few caterpillars have apparently got their growth, but 

 none have begun to spin up, so far as observed. June 3. Forest tent 

 caterpillars are beginning to spin their cocoons; it was first observed on 

 June 3. Many shade trees, hard maples, elms and basswood have been 

 entirely def liated. Damage has also been done in the villages of South 

 Glens Falls, Saratoga county, and Sandyhill and Fort Edward, Wash 

 ington county. June 9. Forest tent caterpillars are about through eating 

 and are spinning up very rapidly. Multitudes of cocoons are spun among 

 the leaves on which the caterpillars feed. Caterpillars of the willow but- 

 terfly [Euvanessa antiopa] are quite widely distributed over the 

 village and in South Glens Falls. June 14. Moths of the forest tent 

 caterpillars are beginning to appear. The board of trustees of Glens 

 Falls ad\ertized on June 17 to pay a bounty of 10c a quart for the 

 cocoons Up to date there have been collected and destroyed 585 

 quarts of cocoons. The cocoons of the forest tent caterpillar are parasi- 

 tized by several ichneumon flies. A Podisus spinosus was 

 found among the cocoons of this insect. June 22. On June 26, the last 

 cocoon was received, making a total of 1350 quarts destroyed at a cost of 

 $135. June 30. Y ung corn is being attacked by the stalk borer [Hy- 

 dro e c i a nitela]. July 12. Some little damage is being done to 

 corn by the stalk borer; one farmer reports one stalk in five infested on 

 new land, but no injury on old land. I have also found it working on 

 old land. July 21 The stalk borer seems to be working in isolated 

 places here and there. Aug. 3. 



Washington county (H. L. Beadle. West Cambridge)— Canker^ 

 worms have been comparatively scarce till this spring, a few may be 

 found on nearly every tree that has not been sprayed. Apple tree tent 

 caterpillars [Clisiocampa a m e r i c a n a] are not very plenty. May 



