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29) * June 4 1862 Bred two cecidomipa salicis ? from dwarf willow galls ^ [[insertion]] = rhodoides W. [[/insertion]] off Meddleham's farm ^ [[insertion]] obtained in the winter [[/insertion]] : indistiguishable from c. salicis ^ [[insertion]] (brassecoides) [[/insertion]] bred from R. R. willow galls, though the galls vary considerably. The untricated gall [[image - pencil drawing of leaf]] on willows seems to be caused by a # tenthndo. See imperfect specimen Do. [No] [[Shobiloider?]] O.S. [[line]] June 16. Caught agrion - ^ [[insertion]] n sp [[/insertion] (near Doubledaye) in my garden with a currant aphis in its mouth. [[line]] June 15. In a pseudogall of [[strikethrough]] Byrsocryfila [[/strikethrough]] ^ [[insertion]] Phylloxera [[/insertion]] [image - pencil drawing] on Hickory leaves, noticed many with several large Thrips among the aphides, & about as numerous. [[line]] June 18. Counted 350 eggs in body of ^ [[insertion]] Attacus [[/insertion]] Luna, besides eggs laid before capture [[line]] June 22. Noticed in galls of Phylloxera caryofolia Fitch ^ [[insertion]] very [[/insertion]] many red pupa of a ^ [[insertion]] lay [[/insertion]] thrips; had noticed a few imago's of this same (?) Thrips in the same galls 2 weeks ago; the pupa seem to have supplanted the Phylloxera, almost every gall continuing ^ [[insertion]] 6 or 7 of [[/insertion]] them, with a few Phylloxera. [[line]] July (middle) leaf roller of apple ^ [[insertion]] (bred) [[/insertion]] is pale variety (= Chicago spec. [[superscript]] ns [[/superscript]]) of [[strikethrough]] locl [[/strikethrough]] Loxotrema [[losacrana?]] (bred) [[line]] [[end page]] [[start page]] (30 N. Y. [[Seminr.?]] [[Trib?]] June 20. 1862 [[newspaper clipping]] The canker worms are very bad this year in Massachusetts--never worse, says The Salem Gazette. All remedies but the oldest fail. This is, pine tar to prevent the ascension of the worms. No material has as yet been found better adapted for this purpose, and cheaper, than the tarred paper, which is used for sheathing, and sold at the hardware stores. It is usually cut into strips six or eight inches wide and fastened round the trees, with a few tacks. But first it is well to tie round the tree a narrow roll of cotton batting, to prevent the ascent under the tar-red paper of the grubs, through any of the crevices in the bark. The cotton, too, if it project a little below the paper, will keep the drip of the tar from running upon the tree. [[/clipping]] [[line]] July 20? 62 Noticed, under the lintel of the old shanty just before R. R. bridge on Mi to the left, a nest of about 12 cells of [[strikethrough]] [[Odymorus?]] [[/strikethrough]] Polistes with yellow fasciae. [[strikethrough]] [a palestem?] [[/strikethrough]] on it were 4 or 5 insects, at work. Social? like bumble-bees. But no [[underlined]] large [[/underlined]] females, as with Bombus. [[curly bracket]] 1866 (fall) yellow Polistes built horizontal comb on upper face of rail in garden. [[line]] July 26. Eyes [[female symbol]] pulchella black, when in ^ [[insertion]] living freshly bred [[/insertion]] imago ; white? in subim. [[strikethrough]] J [[/strikethrough]] [[line]] July 27. Found dead 5 ludias attenuntus Say in bottle; Feb 10, 1861 contained only 4 larvae; no others put in; June .. 1862 only one remained. Hence its larva lives at least two & probably three years, because the larva was introduced in 1860, being then probably largish, & lived till July 1862. [ [[male symbol]] has wings more pointed [[female symbol]] ] [[line]] July ^ [[insertion]] 26 [[/insertion]] [[Paluy.?]] limbata: living [[male symbol]] 1st jt. ant. tarsi moveable; obtained [[line]] [[strikethrough]] Jul [[/strikethrough]] [[male symbol]] imago of Pal. flavescens from subimago, which has [[underlined]] "opaque yellow" [[/underlined]] wings [[line]]
