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shown by available data, not only causes the loss of the crop the 
present season but the blasting of that for the following year, since 
the trees are so weakened in most instances that blossom buds will 
not develop next spring. This recent introduction would ordinarily 
not cause serious injury in orchards which are well sprayed for 
codling moth and other pests. It does, however, threaten serious loss 
and perhaps death to many trees in the infested area, which for some 
reason or other are not or can not be sprayed. 
Some of the more important or more interesting species coming 
to attention during the past year are briefly noticed below. 
The grape leaf hopper, Typhlocyba comes Say, appears 
to have been somewhat unusually abundant, since it was taken in 
numbers upon rose bushes and small apples and pears were injured 
presumably by this insect in Columbia and Dutchess counties. 
The large and brilliantly colored Say’s blister beetle Pom pho- 
poea sayi Lec. was reported from a number of localities, a con- 
firmation of earlier data relating to its periodic appearances. 
The grape leaf hopper, Ty phlocyba comes Say, was some- 
what abundant in portions of the Chautauqua grape belt and in parts 
of the Hudson valley, considerable numbers of wingless hoppers 
being observed in southern Columbia county the last of June. 
Galls of the grape Phylloxera, Phylloxera vitifoliae 
Fitch, have been unusually prevalent on grapevine in different parts 
of the State and judging from specimens received, the same con- 
ditions prevailed in the middle states. 
A new strawberry pest, Heterostomus pulicarius 
Linn., a small, black beetle about three-sixteenths of an inch long, 
was found working in recently opened strawberry blossoms in 
southern Columbia county and investigations disclosed the somewhat 
general occurrence of the insect from that point northward into 
Saratoga county and in portions of Albany county. This appears to 
be a recent European introduction. 
The strawberry weevil, Anthonomus signatus Say, was 
unusually abundant in Albany, Columbia and Saratoga counties. In 
some cases the loss in the crop ranged from 10 to, in a few cases, 
50 per cent, due to weevils cutting the blossom stems. 
The corn ear worm, Heliothis obsoleta Fabr., situation 
shows a marked contrast to the conditions in 1921. Last year this 
insect caused general and in many cases serious injury in practically 
all of the counties of the State and there was much concern respect- 
ing the prospects for the past season. The weight of evidence 
