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English: Typical badly infested roadside. Lexington, Mass., September 1905. Until the brush has been cut and burned, street trees cannot be kept free from gypsy moth caterpillars, and scattering by vehicles will continue.

Identifier: annualreport1906mass (find matches)
Title: Annual report
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Massachusetts. Superintendent for supressing the gypsy and brown-tail moths
Subjects: Gypsy moth Browntail moth
Publisher: Boston
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
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will increase yearly unlessvigorous action is taken against the pest. The apathy ofthe authorities who should deal with the matter is regrettable.If the moth is neglected, the trees of Providence will soonsuffer severely, while it is quite possible that from this largecolony a part of the southern border of Massachusetts nowfree from the pest will be exposed to infestation. After the central office inspectors had located the gypsymoth along the New Hampshire border, from Methuen toSalisbury, the superintendent communicated with StateEntomologist E. D. Sanderson at Durham, N. H., andsuggested that the insect probably occurred in that State,and that it would be most desirable to have an examinationin.ido there by a trained man. At Professor Sandersonsrequest Inspector John Sweeney was temporarily releasedfrom our service, and in a few weeks time located the mothalong the coast line from Seabrook to Portsmouth — anotable avenue of travel. So far no gypsy moths have beenfound in Maine.
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1 a c3 o o . a 5 >> O 0305 ft Q) a >J<CQ 09 0 fl 4J O O 2 to Q bJD -^ fl03 -Q o • 0) CO £ o 1906.) PUBLIC DOCUMENT —No. 73. 25 Brown-tail Moth. A single finding of this insect has been reported fromProvidence. Prof. W. E. Britton of the Connecticut Experi-ment Station, New Haven, states that to his knowledge nofindings have been made in his State. The two lower tiers of counties in New Hampshire aregenerally infested with the brown-tail moth, and ProfessorSanderson has had specimens sent him from the WhiteMountain region. Notable flights of the moths have been C1 O observed at Nashua, Concord and Portsmouth. In Maine Prof. E. D. Hitchings, State Entomologist,Waterville, has found the pest scattered along the coast invarious places. Portland, Rock hind and Augusta are gen-erally infested, while sufficient numbers of the moths havebeen found at Bar Harbor to warrant local work against theinsect. The moth has also been reported at Eastport andat St. John, N. B. In eiffht

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