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ROSE CHAFER ( Macrodac tylus subspinosus Fab.) 
Maine. H. B. Peirson (June): The rose chafer was stripping cornfields at Augusta 
June 17, and stripping roses June 20. It was stripping foliage of ash-leaf 
maple, blackberry, gray birch, white birch, and willow on June 18 at Augusta, 
Portland, and Waterville. 
Few Hampshire, J. C-. Conklin (June 23): The rose chafer is fully as abundant as 
last year. Several orchard! sts report injury to. young apple trees. Severe 
injury to peach trees was also recorded. 
Vermont. H. L. Bailey (June 26):- Rose chafers are very abundant. Reports have 
come from Franklin and Washington Counties of particularly heavy outbreaks. 
Massachusetts. A. I. Bourne (June 24): Probably the outstanding pest of the month 
of June was the rose chafer. The first appearance in large numbers coincided 
with the hot, dry weather. The beetles were extremely active and caused con- 
siderable damage before gardeners realized that the pest was present. It has 
attacked garden crops, small fruits, orchards (both leaves and the forming 
fruit), and many ornamentals, as well as grape- and rose. At the present time 
the attack is lessening somewhat and the beetles are beginning to disappear, but 
it has proved to be one of the most severe attacks which we have had for several 
years. Even in well-sprayed orchards it has not been uncommon to find them 
seriously gouging out forming fruits of apple and peach. Very often as many as 
20 to 25 of the beetles have been collected on one peach. Numerous complaints 
of the beetles attacking strawberry plantings, riddling the leaves and even 
devouring the berries, have been received. Raspberries and blackberries have 
been attacked' very severely and the pest has even been found to riddle the 
foliage of poison ivy. It might be cf interest to note that in one field in 
Agawam, in central Hampden County, the rose chafer was observed early in June 
to be on the whole more destructive to the beans than was the Mexican bean 
beetle. 
Connecticut. W. S. Britton (June 23): M. subspinosus is more abundant than usual 
on apple, peony, and rose at New Haven and Watertown. 
New York. P. J. Parrott (June 20): The rose chafer is very abundant from Albany 
to Buffalo. 
C. H. Hadley (June 23): The rose chafer is abundant at Westbury .Long Island, 
especially on roses and viburnum, and conspicuous defoliation has been observed. 
In some cases 25. per cent of the foliage of viburnum has been destroyed. 
Indiana. J. J. Davis (June 20): The rose chafer was. damaging apple fruits at 
Evansville, May 29. 
Michigan. R. Hut son (June 17): The rose chafer is moderately abundant. 
WIREWORMS (Elateridae) 
Pennsylvania. C. A. Thomas (May 29): The wet weather during May has been very 
favorable for wireworms. Thousands of Pheletes agonus Say larvae were found to 
be damaging cabbage, corn, seed potatoes, rutabagas, etc., in Bucks and other 
1 southeastern counties, while in the western part of the State the chief injury 
was done by larvae of Agriotes '.- mancus Say and Meianotus. sp. (June 21):' Wirev/om 
