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Maine 
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Massachusetts 
Connecticut 
New York 
Delaware 
Maryland 
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'.:; STERN TENT CATERPILLAR ( Malacosoma araericana Jab.) 
K. 3. Peirson fiiay 10): The eastern tent caterpillar 
is very abundant in general. Many reports of damage to 
cherries have been received. (May 19): Eastern tent 
caterpillars are very abundant at Augusta. 
P. R. Lowry (May 28): Eastern tent caterpillars ar~ 
not so common as usual in southeastern quarter of the State. 
A. I. Bourne (May 20): The eastern tent caterpillar is 
fairly abundant in Bristol and Plymouth Counties, but scarce 
elsewhere in the State. 
J. V. Schaffner, Jr. (May 23): Luring this month several 
observers reported the eastern tent caterpillars fully as 
abundant through the eastern section of Massachusetts as 
it was in 1929. In some localities of southern Norfolk, 
northern Bristol, and Essex Counties, vrild cherries are 
brdly defoliated. 
77. E. Britton (May 22): The ^ast^rn tent caterpillar 
is much less abundant than usual, only one nest having 
been seen this year and that in Bethany. Mr. Zsppe saw 
two in Goshen and none elsewhere. 
E. P. Felt (May 26): The tents are vjry scarce. There 
was practically none in the Stamford area last year and 
there seems to be no material increase this season. 
weekly News Letter, N. Y. State Coll- Agr. (May 12): 
There is only a scattering of tent caterpillars in Columbia 
County. 
L. A. Stearns (May 9): The eastern tent caterpillars are 
apparently less common than usual, 
E. N. Cory and assistants (-ay 20): The eastern tent 
caterpillars art; very abundant in Prince Georges and Anne 
Arundell Counties. 
P. J. Chapman (May 21): The eastern tent caterpillar is 
moderately abundant in .^orfolL. 
G. F. Knowlton (May 6): Tent caterpillars are present 
in many orchards in Utah County, requiring increased arsenic 
in the calyx spray on apples. (May 19): Tent caterpillars 
were damaging snowball in one garden at Farmington and 
have been causing slight damage to cherry trees at Perry 
and Willard. 
