Annual report of the Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario, 1902

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Title: Annual report of the Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario, 1902
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario
Subjects: Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario Fruit-culture Fruit-culture
Publisher: Ontario Dept. of Agriculture, (Warcick Bros.
Contributing Library: Brock University
Digitizing Sponsor: Brock University - University of Toronto Libraries

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America. These were collected at Cal-gary, N. W. T. by Mr. T. N. Willing, and in a general way somewhat rest mble small speci-mens of virgimada. Rev. Dr. Bethune exhibited the type specimen from which Dr. Sannders described A. Celiawhich is now believed to be a good species. Votes of thanks tcere passed to thi following : Mr. C. H. Young, Ottawa, for a donation of specimens for the Cabinets, including inflatedarvse of 6 species of noctuid larvae. 86 THE REPORT Ob THE No. 19 Mr. A. E. Norris, Montreal, for sending for exhibition a collection of lantern slides takenby Mr. A. H. Holden and beautifully coloured by Mr. Norris, and also for sending for exhibi-tion a collection of insects to illustrate his paper on the Insects of the year at Montreal. Mr. G. Chagnon, Montreal, for a pair of the new species of Dipteroii, Teph onota Canadensislately described. Dr. Fletcher, for a pair of Chioaobas Macounii for the Societys Cabinet. Mr H. H. Lyman, Montreal, for a specimen of Argymds Ckariclea.
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902 ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 37 REPORTS ON INSECTS OF THE YEAR. Division No. 1.—Ottawa District. C. H. Young, Hurdmans Bridge. The season of 1902 in the Ottawa district has been a very poor one for the collector. Thewriter, outside of some success he had at Meechs Lake, Que., during a six weeks stay, tookvery few acceptable things. The very cold and wet season, especially in May and June, doubtless was the cause of sucha poor year. In August, which month 1 spent at Meechs Lake, however, I was fortunateenough to capture a good number of interesting species, some mention of which I will makeafterwards. The most noticeable injurious insect of the season around Ottawa was doubtless the BirchSkeletonizer (Bvxculatrix Canadensisella) which was so abundant last year, and which, thepresent season, seemed to do just as much damage to birches of all kinds. It was this yearaccompanied, however, by numbers of a large, grayish green aphid, and the damage wasspecially noticeable towards the end of

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