Annual report of the Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario, 1904 . almost waste of time to clear adjoining shade trees, for they are soon occupiedagain by caterpillars from private grounds and gardens. G THE REPORT OF THE No. 19 There lias been a remarkable abundance of Walking-stick insects {Dia-pheromera femorata) Fig. 1, in Niagara Glen this year; they have also beenmore plentiful than usual around Toronto. Some of us were at the Glen onthe 18th of August, and took a few specimens, nearly all of which weremales, but did not notice, then, anything remarkable in their nuniber.
Annual report of the Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario, 1904 . almost waste of time to clear adjoining shade trees, for they are soon occupiedagain by caterpillars from private grounds and gardens. G THE REPORT OF THE No. 19 There lias been a remarkable abundance of Walking-stick insects {Dia-pheromera femorata) Fig. 1, in Niagara Glen this year; they have also beenmore plentiful than usual around Toronto. Some of us were at the Glen onthe 18th of August, and took a few specimens, nearly all of which weremales, but did not notice, then, anything remarkable in their nuniber. again on September 18, with some friends, and reportedthem as very numerous; many specimens having fallen on them from thetrees, as they walked through the woods; so I went over on September 23 toget a few more specimens. I could have got hundreds, if I had wanted are not generally very plentiful around Toronto; one may sometimesget about a dozen, in an afternoon by specially looking for them; but oftenone may not see that number in a whole Fig. ]. Walking-stick insect. I Lave read accounts of their being very numerous in parts of Pennsyl-vania; but I never expected to see such hosts of them m Canada as I did onthe afternoon of September 23. In a part of the north end of the Gl^n wherethey were most numerous, many of the bushes were qmte stnpt of their foli-age, only the thick veins of the leaves being left, and some large trees aleowere quite bare. ^? c On one tree, whose top still retained a little foliage, there ^^^ a line ofthem almost covering one side of the trunk and reaching ^^^J^^^^tUas far as the eye could see. Some were constant y running across the pathsBO that it wasdifiicult to avoid treading upon them; -^^ a continual dro^-pino- could be heard as they fell from the trees and bushes. I took someWe ones, that were at least half an inch longer than the average Toronto 1904 ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. specimens. These were on the outskirts of the cr
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