. Annual report of the Regents . s the following: I found the spotted horn-bug in a soft, ripe, seckel pear which hehad eaten into quite to the core. I had laid the pear in a crotch of thetree the day before. I put him in a paper box with a piece of the samepear which he ate. Where the juice of the pear had softened thepaper box he ate through it. As the beetle also in like manner ate through the saturated bottomof the box in which he was confined in my office, it is probable thatthe sweet juice of the fruit is the chief attraction, and that fruit ordi-narily would not be attacked by it unless
. Annual report of the Regents . s the following: I found the spotted horn-bug in a soft, ripe, seckel pear which hehad eaten into quite to the core. I had laid the pear in a crotch of thetree the day before. I put him in a paper box with a piece of the samepear which he ate. Where the juice of the pear had softened thepaper box he ate through it. As the beetle also in like manner ate through the saturated bottomof the box in which he was confined in my office, it is probable thatthe sweet juice of the fruit is the chief attraction, and that fruit ordi-narily would not be attacked by it unless its surface had been broken,,permitting of the escape of its juices. Crioceris asparagi (Linn.). The Asparagus Beetle. In the notice of this insect in the First Report on the Insects ofJSfevj York, 188*2 (pp. 239-246), it was stated, that in the State of NewYork we only hear of its serious injuries from Long Island and tlievicinity of New York city. It might have been added, that it wasnot known to occur elsewhere in the Ni^TH Report of the State Entomologist 343 Two years thereafter the insect appeared in Central New York. InJune of that year (1884), Mr. E. S. Goff, at that time the Horticultu-rist of the Agricultural Station at Geneva,sent to me examples of , and the eggson the leaves and slender brandies of theplants, with the statement that it was thefirst time that he had met with the insect,but that he had learned that it was quiteprevalent in and about Geneva. In a com-munication to the Geneva Courier of June4, 1844, Mr. A. P. Rose wrote, after callingattention to the new insect pest: I thinkthat this must be tlie first year of its appear- ,ommonsTx^sPS5foS%Sance in this part of the State. My attention iSereoT|?me^tTf S^^^was called to the subject by the late report and front tarsus,of Professor Lintner, the State Eutomologist, and on examining myown asparagus bed, I found a number of the beetles and great quanti-ties of the eggs. As yet, no damage seems t
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