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used on 15-year-old trees. The spray was applied in both 
pink and calyx applications. Fair control where double and 
triple strengths were used; practically none where the 
ordinary strength was applied. This pest was much more 
serious in orchards not receiving an application of oil spray." 
BUD MOTH ( Traetocera ocellana Schiff .) 
New York E. P. Felt (May 24). "Bud moths appeared in only very moderate 
numbers in eastern New York." 
C. R. Crosby and assistants. "Many orchards seriously injured 
in Genesee, Orleans, and Monroe Counties." 
APPLE AND THORN SKELETONIZER ( Hemerophila pariana Clerck) 
Connecticut B. A. Porter (June 14) . "Larvae of the first brood have completed 
feeding at V/allingf ord . Moths began to emerge in small numbers 
on June 7." 
U. P. Zappe (June 24). "First-brood larvtae have matured and 
adults have been flying about New Haven and Fairfield." 
New York E. P. Felt (June 23). "A marked extension of the infested area 
in New York State indicated by specimens received early in June 
from Ulster Park, Ulster County, there being a general infesta- 
tion in one orchard at that place." 
TENT CATERPILLAR ( Malacosoma americana Fab.) 
Massachusetts H. T, Fernald (June 22). "An unusual abundance of tent- caterpillar 
nests appeared this year on Cape Cod." 
H. A. Mostrom (June 10) . "This insect is very abundant in Essex 
County. The wilt disease, however, has materially checked the 
infestation." 
Connecticut W. E. Britton (June 24), "This insect is considerably more 
abundant than last year in New Haven, Fairfield, Middlesex, 
Hartford, Tolland, and Windham Counties." 
New York C. R. Crosby and assistants. "Unusually abundant in orchards 
in Rockland County, and observed in unsprayed orchards in 
Seneca County." 
E. P. Felt (May 24). "This insect appears to be abundant in 
parts of Ulster and Putnam Counties. It is also decidedly on 
the increase in Chenango County." 
West F. E. Brooks (May 19). "This insect is unusually scarce this 
Virginia year, only one tent having been observed thi3 spring." 
Missouri A. C. Burrill (June 8). "This insect is appearing quite numerously 
along the Mississippi River bottom lands in Cape Girardeau County." 
