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  Re-examined medicated boughs in garden

[[underline]] June 12. [[/underline]]

No. 1. Effectual. Dried off long ago.
No. 2. Not quite effectual. A few larvae [[underline]] below. [[/underline]]
No. 3  Limb ^ [[insertion]] (bursting bark) [[/insertion]] partly killed. On Espalier almost wholly so. 
No. 4  Bark bursting.
No. 5  Effectual
No. 6  Not quite effectual
No. 8  [[strikethrough]] Very [[/strikethrough]] Not much effect.

  Boughs soaped in November almost entirely free from larvae; except [[underline]] below [[/underline]]

  Noticed today & previously a [[underline]] scarlet [[/underline]] mite among the scales, travelling freely: full-grown.

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  On all the medicated boughs, larvae had crawled on to them from their base for a foot or two; below their base, pretty thick.

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[[underline]] June 12. [[/underline]] Found in 1/2 an hour 5 locomotive bark-lice; all (as well as those found on previous day) seen distinctly under the lens to be travelling: (also a few, apparently [[strikethrough]] just [[/strikethrough]] not long hatched out;) Took one to office & verified it to be a Barklouse under strong lenses.

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Beebe of Glena sends me specimens of ^ [[insertion]] Miner [[/insertion]] plum badly infested by [[underline]] Aspidiotus conchiformis. [[/underline]]

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  Gall very near [[underline]] Pruni crumena, [[underline]] but always growing on [[underline]] lower [[/underline]] (not [[underline]] upper [[/underline]]) surface of leaf, & with the [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] mouth on the upper face of gall with white wool, the gall itself not tinged with pink, was sent me by Beebe growing on [[underline]] tame [[underline]] ^ [[insertion]] Miner [[/insertion]] plum. Gall also with a few longitudinal carinae, & some of them .55 inch long (not .10 - .16 inch)

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[[underline]] Ephippiger [[/underline]] (= species taken at Chippk.) sent by L. Bunce of Du Bois, Washington Co, Ill. "Taken in the act of capturing & killing the [17-year] locust sent with him." Ate good part of locust on the [[strikethrough]] year [[/strikethrough] road, & ate a hole in one of his own hind legs which had come off.

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[[underline]] June 15. [[/underline]] Found 3 locomotive Barklice -- all on the limb dossed with brine this spring. Could see none on the other limbs.

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  Noticed 2 [[underline]] Asp. conchif. [[/underline]] old scales on my pear-tree; also in one spot hundreds of empty (? white) Mite's eggs.  Also the elongate scales supposed by Harris to be [[male symbol]] Asp. harrisii. Old scales? Also numbers of these last on middle standard tree.

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  The Chitoconus swarms now on the Yellow Bellefleur on the lousiest limbs: counted 6 of them on 2 ft. of a limb. Saw also 5 or 6 active scarlet mites, 3 of them within 6 inches of each other on the same badly lousy limb. On this tree scarcely as many larvae as old scales. [[image]]

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Aspidiotus conchiformis Curtis Ephippiger - grasshopper