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Sep 7 Two [[female symbol]] Blackberry [[underline]  Aegeria [[/underline]] came out. All [[male symbol, female symbol]] came out early in the morning, or by 9 or 8.

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Sep. 7. [[underline]] Cucumber worm. [[/underline]] A 16-legged greenish ^ [[insertion]] white [[/insertion]] worm, 2.3 inch long, boring into ^ [[insertion]] green [[/insertion]] cucumbers. A small hole outside through which apparently it enters. Tapers towards head end. Head rufous. Spins a web [[image]] in a hole in a cucumber in which I had placed one. Legs & prolegs colored as body, legs slightly tipped with brown. Cervical shield [[image]] very pale rufous. A darker green dorsal line. Tubercles ^ [[insertion]] simple row last [[insertion]] (joint.) Colored ^ [[insertion]] nearly [[/insertion]] as body, each emitting a short dusky hair. Placed in Jar H. (4 specm. 1 injured at tail) Sept. 10. 1 came out & was brownish white.)
Sept. 11 One had spun a thin white silk cocoon on paper cover of jar

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21 [[underline]] Tachina [[/underline]] eggs on Shoulders of one Sphinx larva (Deilephila lineata - purslane)

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In P. F. Sept. 4. 1869 p. 283 ([[?]])d. B. Wier speaks of a Raspberry cane girdler. Probably [[underline]] Agidius ruficollis. [[/underline]] [He says [[underline]] not; [[/underline]] specimens sent him.]

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Sep 6. H. K. Vichroy (Ind. University, Champaign) sends me 2 of "Hammond's Leaf-tier "as doing considerable damage to the apple."

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Set. 11. Bred Anthicus cervinus (brown) from Cherry Black knot.

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Gall [[underline]] Quercus ovum. [[/underline]] ^ [[insertion]] Very abundant [[/insertion]] On upper face of leaves of Q. tinctoria. A hard almost woody roundish sessile swelling, .18 - .22 inch in diameter, but one or more often confluent, sometimes into a [[insertion]] great-guts [[/insertion]] [[underline]] bowel- [[/underline]] like elongated mass. Surface ^ [[insertion]] scabrous [[insertion]] [[strikethrough]] rough [[/strikethrough]] & pale greenish brown, the tortoise like marking not year so obvious as in [[underline]] Q. pilula. [[/underline]] Inside greenish white, the single galls ^ [[insertion]] only [[/insertion]] monothalamous Reverse side of leaf a pale green blister-like elevation, [[image]] with an obscure central nipple, the compound galls with many such nipples.

  Larva .07 - .08 long, ^ [[insertion]] 2 - 2 1/2 times as long as wide, [[/insertion]] dull [[insertion]] pellucid [[/insertion]] yellow with curdy ^ [[insertion]] opaque bowel-like [[/insertion]] white markings, the tail often (when retracted) appearing truncate & emarginate [[image]]. Bb two dark dots only [[image]] even when head is fully inserted. [[symbol]] [[underline]] Q. pilula, [[/insertion]] wch. had a clove-shaped breastbone.

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"Bladder plums" [hollow like our Amern. ones]. Common on the [[?]] in England. Said to be caused by a parasitic fungus ([[underline]] Ascomyces deformans [[/underline]] )
See Index to J. II. p. 32 (Science-gossip. Aug 1. '69. p. 186

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