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March 7. Found a hyaline-whitish [[underline]] hairy [[end underline]] larva in one of the very smallest of the [[underline]] strobiloides [[end underline]] galls near R.R. Culvert.
March 9 - Found immense numbers of bloomy-black eggs .04 inch long & twice as long as wide, on a brassicoides willow just beyond cutout opposite lime-quarry to the left. Whole twigs blackened on one side. Aphis?
March 16. Found a "seminator" gall ^(preserved)^ on a last year's (dead) shoot of blackberry, 1 1/4 inch long & 1 inch across, egg-shaped & woolly, pale dirty brown. Wool about .30 inch long, the cells ^.10 inch long^ united apparently in a roundish mass by [[corkey?]] matter & pretty close together. Cells empty.
Found egg-shaped hollow galls 3/4 by 1/2 inch on tips of shoots of red osier dogwood. Aphidous? Rind about as thick as stout spongifica galls. Empty [[arrow to bottom of page reads:]] June 1864 noticed these galls [[?]] from flower [[return to main text]]
Found many "brassicoides" like galls on tips of twigs of young stunted plums. [[image cells.]] Cells all empty.
Found on q. ficus gall [[image]] one [[underline]] undoubted [[end underline]] cell on the circumference beside central cell. Ditto, Ditto. Cell empty.
Found a small black chalcidide inside [[underline]] cocoon [[end underline]] of c.s. [Amaranthus.] [[underline]] gnaphalioides [[end underline]]
The larger-sized conotrachelus nenuphar are probably a [[underline]] race [[end underline]] feeding on nuts (as Clytus pictus
March 29. Lep. larva had eaten thro the cecidomyia cell & destroyed in [[underline]] C.s. strobiloides [[end underline]] gall
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Found {.16 ^inch^ long = eggs, of orchelimum^ pupae in [[underline]] c.s. strobiloides [[end underline]] galls (as before) preserved specimens - .17 inch long & very narrow - 7 times as long as wide. ^More tapered at one end & no [[sutures?]]^ Also an Ichneumon pupa among the [[grass?]] full [[underline]] outside [[end underline]] part of strobilana. ^Parasite of nematus?^ Placed in small vial with small Cecid? pupa ^[came out - Braconide April 7?^ Cecidomyide still in larva state.
[[underline]] R.R. brassicoides still in larva. [[end underline]]
[[strike next]] one in pupa probably ichneum? from appearance of antennae. 3rd jts not long [[strike next]] Pussy willow brassec.[[end strike]]
Rhodoides galls - opened two - [[underline]] one in larva, one in pupa; [[end underline]] pupa with 16 or 17 terminal jts antennae.
[[strike ??]] base indistinct. Anus no ovipositoreal [[organs?]] abd, not peduncled. Head inferior. Thorax [[hunched?]]
At bottom of jar containing C.S. [podagrae / batatas F.] galls found several ^bright^ sanguineous cecidomyiade pupae with the pair of horns ^found^ [the pupa-skin of bred cecid {S. batatas / rufiventris has such horns]^ in that [Asynapta] tree burrowing in R.R. brassic-galls [did not keep them]
March 30. In [[underline]] strobiloides [[end underline]] galls [[underline]] no pupae [[end underline]] but 2 or 3 milk-white cecid, [[strike]] cynip [[end strike]] larvae & one bluish white hairy ([[strike]] Cynip? [[end strike]] Chalcid?) larva.
Found in Dunlaps field a solid. gall with a large lepid larva in it. Gall hollow. Larva .55 inch long, whitish. Head reddish brown [[image]] not peduncled. Legs & prolegs normal. 1st segm. above [[image]] ^pale^ reddish brown & horny. Spiracles small, normal, dusky. A few scattering, longish hairs on body -- April 8 this gall was perforated & on the dry sand underneath it were about 24 yellowish [[arrow to more text at bottom reads:]] white larva .18 long & 4 or 5 times as long as wide. Placed them in the box. They had begun spinning. Microgaster? Inside the gall was the shrunk skin of [[Lepid.?]]
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From Rev. Green's Book
Tin-box-oval 2 6/8 x 2 inches & about 4 inches high
Green uses "treacle & a little rum" for sugaring? a saturated solution of oxalic acid & a steel tin for killing.
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