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12) [[underlined]] Datana ministra [[/underlined]] - shifted oak to apple - now 1 1/8 - 1/4 long. Beginning to show yellow neck. Some with whitish, most with yellow stripes. [[line]] x| Sep. 14 [[underlined]] Ampelopsidos ovum [[/underlined]] - [[strikethrough]] Cecid. [[/strikethrough]] ^ [[insertion]] [Curculionidous] [[/insertion]] A simple oval enlargement of peduncle of leaf to ^[[insertion]] about [[/insertion]] 1/2 greater diameter; all bored now. Many full of frass & hole very large; in 2 found a "Madurus and escribed" ^[[insertion]] (black) [[/insertion]] [inquilinous] gallmaker [[line]] Sep. 16 [[underlined]] Vitifoliae [[/underlined]] Still fresh galls on young leaves with mother-louse eggs + larvae. Found several [[underlined]] incipient [[/underlined]] galls, open above, but cd. see no louse in them. Larvae must start fresh galls? [[line]] Sep. 19. [[underlined]] Datana ministra [[/underlined]] have now all moulted. Were 4 or 5 days about it, remaining motionless on same twigs on which shifted. Now all have [[underlined]] white [[/underlined]] lines, & an immaculate transversely oblong yellow patch above behind the head. [[line]] According to Wm. H. Riggs of Mercer Co., the Chinch bug first prevailed in that Co. in 1845. [[line]] According to a State Fair Beeman, V. Porter of Anna Illinois, black bees entirely disappear from an italianized hive in good summer weather in 3 months, later in the season in 4 or 5 months. According to an Ohio Beeman, W. A. Flanders of Ohio, they disappear in from 58 days to 5 months. And the Italian bees disappear from an Italian hive supplied with a black queen in about 3 1/2 months. [[end page]] [[start page]] 13) Oct. 3. [[underline]] Datana ministra. [[/underline]] Only five remaining. Shifted them back on to Oak. [[line]] Nov. 14 Dr. Smith of Glueseo ([[urctore?]] Dr. Velie) found [[underline]] Coreus tristis [[/underline]] to prey largely on larva of Doryphora 10-lineata - piercing it with its beak & sucking it dry. [[line]] Dr. Trumble says the Pear is [[underline]] not [[underline]] attacked by Tent Caterpillar. [[line]] The boll-worm (of Cotton) the same as the Corn worm. = Heliothis armigera ____ (not in Morris Cat) See Agr. Bureau Monthly Report July 1866 P. ^ [[insertion]] p 284. [[/insertion]] Three broods south, 2 in Kansas. [[line]] Nov. 18. Found very numerous [[underline]] Aphis male [[/underline]], some winged, some apterous both green & blackish with intermediate color, on my apple trees, also very numerous eggs [[image]] mostly black, a few (immature?) grass-green. Late fall & a few [[strikethrough]] leaves still [[/strikethrough]] green ^ [[insertion]] leaves still remaining [[/insertion]] on tips of twigs, but on bare twigs found Aphis walking about. [[line]] x| Nov. 20 Found among [[underline]] Coccus Harrisii [[/underline]] numerous ^ [[insertion]]^ minute [[/insertion]] blood-red not pink) perfectly globular bodies -- may be eggs of some unknown insect. Can scarcely be young larvae of [[underline]] Coccus [[/underline]] hatched from eggs, because diameter = [[underline]] small [[/underline]] diameter of eggs, which are 1/2 longer than wide. [Cannibal eggs?] Mite-eggs? [[line]] Nov. 24 Buried in garden 12 pupae of [[underline]] Datana ministra [[/underline]] fed on apple, but found on oak. [[line]] Nov. 28. Apple-maggot: from Wallingford Connecticut. Length .l5 inch, 4 1/2 times as long as wide. ^[[insertion]] Color green [[strikethrough]] yellowish [[/strikethrough]] white. [[/insertion]] Tail truncate, with two pale-brown ^ [[insertion]] horny roufus[[/insertion]] tubercles below ^ [[insertion]] each composed of 3 thorns longitudinally arranged [[/insertion]] & two subobsolete [[strikethrough]] retro [[/strikethrough]] ^ [[insertion]] whitish [[/insertion]] extrusile ones above, each part ^[[insertion]] of tubercles [[/insertion]] transversely arranged. Body tapered towards mouth from the middle. Head narrowly emarginated in front, [[end page]]