beetle, F. P, Keen reports that spring work has already 
start 3d arid that five camps ars now in operation with over 
100 men on the payroll. Other camps will be opened as fast 
as snow conditions and available labor supply will permit.. 
Two hundred men are probably at work at the time this is being 
written. 
A SATURN ID MOTH ( Colored ia pandora Blake) 
Oregon Montiifer News Letter. Bureau of Entomology, Ho. 108, (April): 
J. E. Paterson has reported recent defoliations of pine 
timber on the Klamath Indian Reservation by the larvae of a 
moth, Coloradia pandora Blake, Areas of heavy defoliation 
of pine were found* The insect can be controlled by the use 
of fire during the feeding period of the larvae. Ground 
debris is fired and burned under the infested trees, which 
causes the caterpillars to become stupdfied and fall to 
the ground. C-reat precautions should be taken to prevent 
forest fires. The pupae of the moth were used as food by 
the Klamath and Modoc tribes of Indians and were considered 
a delicacy when roasted. It is believed that this i s the first 
record of the use of pupae as food by western Indians. 
POPLAR 
A BUCK MOTH (Eemileuca nevadensis Stretch) 
Nebraska M. H. Swenk (April 15-May 15} : The presence of an abundance 
of the egg rings of Hemiieuca nevadensis in a poplar grove 
in Cheyenne County was reported May 4. The eggs hatched in cur 
Laboratory at Lincoln on May 14. Last year, for the first 
time of which we have a record, this caterpillar proved injurious 
to cottonwood and orchard trees in this State, the injury being 
in Lincoln County. 
S PRUCE 
SPRUCE BUDWOEM (Harmotto'Ta fumiferana Clem.) 
Michigan R. H. Petti t (May 23): I report the presence of the spruce 
budworm on spruce sent in from Fosters. Miss McLaniel reports 
the emergence of adult moths this morning. This emergence is 
hastened no doubt, by the fact that they were kept in the 
insectary from the tenth instant until the present time, 
I IT S E C T S ATTACKING GREENHOUSE 
AND ORNAMENTAL P L A N T S 
L/WNS 
. . ARTS (Foi-micidae) 
Nebraska M* H„ Swenk (April 15-May 15): There has been much complaint, 
during the period covered by this report, of injuries by ants 
in lawns in the larger cities of e~,stern Nebraska. 
