NOTES ON 
INSECTS AND INSECTICIDES 
1888. 
BY JAMES CASSIDY, 
Botanist and Horticulturist. 
The season just closed has been remarkable for the 
introduction of some insect pests new to our State. We 
speak especially of the garden web worm (. Eurycreon ran- 
taiis) ; the squash bug ( Coreus tristis); and the false chinch 
bug (Nt/sius a.ngulatus). 
Nothing short of prompt attack with approved rem¬ 
edies could save seedling crops against these foes ot 
agriculture, and the lesson^ to be derived from the sea¬ 
son’s work is that cultivators of the soil should be 
more prompt to avail themselves of those remedies dem¬ 
onstrated to be effective and to use them promptly, if 
the}" would succeed in growing crops with any degree of 
certainty in the future. 
We took the first specimen of Pieris rapae March 17th; 
Pieris protodice was flying at this time, and also one of the 
“skippers” ( Eudamus tityrus), Vanessa antiopa and Milberti 
were seen in numbers March 7th. 
The codling moth {Carpocapsa pomonella) was plenti¬ 
ful toward the end of the month of April, but the hack- 
berry butterflies and white lined morning sphinx moth, so 
plentiful last season, almost disappeared this year. 
Some species of genus Grapta were as early and 
as numerous as ever. The imported currant borer (new 
here) appeared in force May 26th. 
The apple leaf beetle appeared May 7th, and toward 
the latter part of the month attacked the foliage of the 
grape. 
