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FOREST A IT D SHADE-TREE INSECTS 
CANKERWORMS (Geonetridae) . 
Ohio. T. H, Parks (March 25 ) '• Males of cankcrworms first seen in flight 
on March 20. 'wingless females of the fall species ( Alsophila pone- 
tar i a Harr.) were energifig and laying eggs on eln twigs on March 22. 
IT. E. Howard (March 20): Male canke rwo rn noths emerging and in 
flight in the Olentangy River Valley today. Wingless female noths 
are emerging and crawling up the trunks of trees at Columbus and "be- 
ing caught in tanglefoot hands where present. 
Indiana. P. P. Ulnan (March 29)1 Bands on eln trees and others showed 
very light emergence of Paleo.crita vernata, Peck, on March 3* Medium 
heaver flight on March 19, 20, and 25 . 
Illinois. W. ?. Flint (March 22): Observations of tanglefoot hands at 
points in north-central Illinois show that adult cankerworns began 
going vco trees as early a„s February 3* More or less continuous 
emergence every warn evening for the lent month. Heavy infestation 
expected. 
Kansas. H. R. Bryson (March 27)1 A few spring and fall cankerworn moths 
cane to bonds at Manhattan on February 7 "but have been emerging very 
slowly since. P. vernata began emerging about March 1. 
Missouri. L. Has enan (April l) : Emergence of P. vernata in the open in 
central Missouri reached a. peak: during last 10 days of March, and 
tanglefoot bonds ore now covered with male ond female moths. Con- 
siderable numbers are still emerging. 
Texas. R. K, Fletcher (March S'): First-instar P. vernata. found feeding on 
plum and elm at McLennon County on March 2. 
GYPSY MOTH ( Porthetria dispar L. ) 
Vermont. H. L. Bailey (March 22): Egg masses abundant and generally 
distributed in Connecticut River Valley towns, southeastern Vermont, 
from and including Springfield to Massachusetts line. Particularly 
abundant in Rockingham. 
A TUSSOCK MOTH (Henerocanpa definita Pack. ) 
Vermont. H. L. Bailey (March 22): Egg masses more numerous than usual on 
trees in Newbury, Bradford, and other towns in eastern Vermont. 
