FOREST AND SHADE-TREE INSECTS 
MISCE LLANEO US FEEDERS 
SEOTTEg$-YiGAR CICADA (3 £& s eotendecia L.) 
lorida Jeff Chaff in (July 29). '"Reports from inspectors and county agents 
indicate that Brood XXI of the periodical cicada is present all over 
norih and ";~>3i Florida at the present time.. I have received specimens 
from a3 fa? west as Bay County and Panama City ? and collected a few 
specimens here at Gainesville yesterday. The brood seems less 
numerous than usual and just appeared within the last ten days or two 
weeke •" 
GIPSY MOTH ( Porthetria dispar L .) 
tassachusetts A. I. Bourne (August 2l) . "I have a report from the northern part 
of Worcester County that the gipsy moths are at the present time 
beginning their egg laying; but, apparently, the eggs are in much 
smaller numbers than last year." 
SATIN MOTH ( Stilpnotia salicis L.) 
Washington A. L« Melander (August 26). "The satin moth has attained apparently 
a permanent foothold in western Washington. It was reported by 
William E. Longley, a specialist on Lepidoptera, as so abundant in 
South Bellingham that the crushed caterpillars have made the sidewalks 
slippery. Poplar trees have been stripped of foliage, the larvae 
pupating on bare twigs among hedges and projections of near-by houses. 
Mr. Longley aleo reports the occurrence of tachinid parasites • 
This insect, against which the Federal Horticultural Board estab- 
lished a quarantine in New England this year, is also reported by our 
State district horticultural inspector, Mr. C* 0. Weiss, as occurring 
at Blaine on the international border. It also occurs at New 
Westminister, B« C, according to information from across the border." 
FOREST TENT CATERPILLAR (Malapqsqaa, disstr^a Huebn.) 
idaho Claude Wakeland (July 3i) f "This insect is very much wore abundant 
than usuaj. in Boundary, Bonner, and parts of Kootenai and Bennewah 
Counties, th6 most serious infestation being on poplar, birch, willow, 
choke eherry, wild rose, hawthorn, and apple; also to some extent on 
boxelder. The moths had all emerged by the last of July and countless 
egg masses are on all the above mentioned trees. The most serious 
infestation peems to be along river banks and lowlands n Two un- 
determined hynemopterous and one dipterous parasite have been reared 
f/om pupa cases, indicating a parasitism of about 25 per cent* 
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