BEPORT OF THE STATE ENTOMOLOGIST 



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The Pear-Midge. (Albany Evening Journal, for May SO, 1893, 

 p. 6, c. 5 — 8 cm.) 



The pear-midge has made its appearance in Columbia and Greene counties 

 in this State. When first observed; an introduced insect; nature of its 

 injuries; preference for the Lawrence pear. 



The Invasion of Plant-Lice in New York. (American Farmer, 

 lxxiv, for June 1, 1893, p. 1, c. 4 — fc 28 cm.) 



The apple-tree aphis, Aphis mali, is unusually abundant, apparently 

 throughout the State. Importance of reducing it by spraying. The early 

 rains do not seem to have materially diminished it. Anxiety of the hop- 

 growers lest the conditions favorable to aphis multiplication this year 

 should so increase the hop-vine aphis that its injuries of 1886 shall be 

 repeated; they are urged to watch for its first appearnce and at once spray 

 for it. The " hop-washings" in England. 



[See pages 426-429 of this Report (x).] 



The Apple-Tree Aphis. (Country Gentleman, for June 8, 1893, 

 lviii, p. 419, c. 2 — 15 cm.) 



Replying to an inquiry from Seneca county, N. Y. : The aphis may occur 

 on the opening buds without blighting the blossoms. Young aphides are 

 destroyed by heavy rainfalls. Their multiplication may seriously impair 

 fruit crops. Young apple trees may be killed by aphis attack. Importance 

 of spraying to prevent injury just after the aphides have hatched. 



Some Potato Pests. (Country Gentleman, for June 8, 1893, 



lviii, p. 41^, c. 2, 3 — 18 cm.) 



A "small black flea" perforating the leaves of potatoes in Scarsdale, 

 N. Y., is the cucumber flea-beetle, Crepidodera cucumeris. Its food-plants 

 and remedies. 



Wire-worms and thousand-legged worm, Julus cceruleocinctus, referred to 

 as operating on field potatoes. J. cceruleocinctus not the cause of the 

 scab. — See Country Gentleman, for April 27, 1893, p. 329. Kainit given as 

 a remedy for the thousand-legged worm. Wire-worms would not be killed 

 by kainit unless applied in too expensive quantities . 



A Greenhouse Pest. (Gardening, for June 15, 1893, i, p. 313, 

 c. 1-3 — 61 cm.) 



Reply made to a communication from Boise, Idaho, of flies injuring 

 plants in a greenhouse : — The fly seems to be an und escribed species. It is 

 one of the " midges " and belongs to the genus Sciara, and according to 

 Mr. R. H. Meade, near to the European S. nervosa. Some of the flies, re- 

 ceived in 1889 from a gentleman in Albany as injuring mushrooms, were 

 sent to Mr. William Falconer. He states that "he had never regarded them 

 as injurious to mushrooms, although there were thousands of them in the 

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