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![1893-] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 323.
DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY,
Edited by Prof. JOHN B. SMITH, Sc. D., New Brunswick, N. J.
A Few Notes on Cranberry Insects. The cranberry industry is one of
the most important in parts of Massachusetts and parts of New Jersey,
and the cultivation of this fruit is extending to the West. It has already
become of considerable importance in Wisconsin, and plantations have
been started in the State of Washington. Recently, the horticulturist of
the Wisconsin Station has published a bulletin on the insects and diseases
of the cranberry, based almost entirely on work done at the New Jersey
Station by the botanist and entomologist there. In August last I had an
opportunity of conversing with Mr. Goff, at Madison, Wis., and he in-
forms me that in some respects there seems to be a little difference in
habit of some of the insects, and particularly in the case of the Teras
vacciniivorana. In New Jersey and on Cape Cod it is well known that
this insect is dimorphic, and that there is a fall brood, which is slate colored
and lives through the Winter, and that there are two Summer broods,
both of which are orange colored. The interesting point seems to be,
that this orange colored brood is entirely wanting in Wisconsin, and that
only the slate colored form exists there. The evidence upon which this
statement is made, is not entirely beyond question, but it is very likely
indeed to prove correct, from what we know of the actions of other in-
sects in similar climatic conditions.
A point of some interest in connection with the new bogs that have
been started in Washington is, that I have received from that place speci-
mens of the " Fire-worm," the larva of Rhopobota vacciniana, the insects
being transmitted to me through the agency of the secretary of the Amer-
ican Cranberry Growers' Association. Investigations made at my request
show that the vines which …](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lne6bj76yvwayaonqzd7zsom/bafkreibhjsr7j7k3acdxnl5ld7x4lvypwkveg2brpw6h5agf6ydluwd2oi)
Expat Kiwi, emeritus Professor of Taxonomy at Glasgow University, inclined to say that something sucks at every available opportunity. Biodiversity informatics, phylogeny, knowledge graphs.