. Report of the State Entomologist of Connecticut for the year ... fors, pa jordbr. Entom. : r 20, 1915. 190 CONNECTICUT EXPERIMENT STATION BULLETIN 226. THE APPLE AND THORN SKELETONIZER INCONNECTICUT. Hemerophila pariana Clerck. This is an European species which has recently become estab-lished in this country. It first appeared in Westchester County,N. Y., and its presence in the United States was mentioned byDoctor E. P. Felt in a Scientific Note in the Journal of EconomicEntomology, Vol. 10, page 502, August 1917. Later a full illus-trated account giving habits, descriptions, partia
. Report of the State Entomologist of Connecticut for the year ... fors, pa jordbr. Entom. : r 20, 1915. 190 CONNECTICUT EXPERIMENT STATION BULLETIN 226. THE APPLE AND THORN SKELETONIZER INCONNECTICUT. Hemerophila pariana Clerck. This is an European species which has recently become estab-lished in this country. It first appeared in Westchester County,N. Y., and its presence in the United States was mentioned byDoctor E. P. Felt in a Scientific Note in the Journal of EconomicEntomology, Vol. 10, page 502, August 1917. Later a full illus-trated account giving habits, descriptions, partial life history andbibliography appeared in the Thirty-third Report of the NewYork State Entomologist for the year 1917, and it is from thispublication that the chief facts were gleaned for use in the presentpaper. Doctor Felt had warned us to be on the watch for the insect inFairfield County, Connecticut, because he had observed it verynear the Connecticut border in Westchester County, N. Y., butthe first report of its occurrence within the state was made over. Figure 7. Larva of apple and thorn skeletonizer, six times enlarged.(After Felt, Cornell Extension Bulletin 27, 1918.) the telephone in the autumn of 1920 by Mr. F. A. Bartlett ofStamford, who stated that the insect was quite abundant in thevicinity of Belle Haven, Greenwich. At my request he gatheredsome material and sent for examination. This reached the labor-atory November 13. From Doctor Felts published descriptions,we were able to identify it as Hemero-phila pariana Clerck. OnNovember 18, Messrs. Walden and Zappe of this departmentvisited the locality and gathered more material from which anadult moth emerged on December 7. According to Mr. Bartlett,the insect occurs in the towns of both Greenwich and Haven is situated in the southwestern part of Greenwichadjacent to the town of Rye, N. Y. Nature op Injury. The caterpillars feed upon the upper surface of the leaves some-times entirely skeletonizing t
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