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Title: American forestry
Identifier: americanforestry2111915amer (find matches)
Year: 1910-1923 (1910s)
Authors: American Forestry Association
Subjects: Forests and forestry
Publisher: Washington, D. C. : American Forestry Association
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
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BIRD ENEMIES OF FOREST INSECTS 689 tree pest. * H= One of the most remark- able phases of this pest were the flights of great swarms of the snow-white moths. * * * In New York City, the effect was compared to a snowstorm in mid- summer. Myriads of moths fluttered about the electric lights. Dr. John B. Smith says that on the evening of July 17, Newark, Eliza- beth, and Paterson, N. J., had the same experience. On the morning after the flight,however, noth- ing remained except great nimibers of snow-white wings without bodies, show- ing the work of the English sparrow. * * * The testimony re- garding the activity of the English spar- row in exterminating this pest in cities seems to show rather conclusively that this much-disliked bird did actually bring about the destruc- tion of this insect. Nearly every writer on the snow-white linden moth makes acknowledgment to the sparrow and de- clares that the cities owe their freedom from this insect to that bird." The writer has seen English sparrows doing the same kind of work on the brown-tail moth, the whole pavement on blocks near electric lights, being
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Yellow Billed Cuckoo this is ax important insectivorous bird. it specializes on the hairy caterpillars and these constitute about half its food when they can be obtained. fall webworms. tussock, gypsy and browntail moth larvae also are often eaten and the bird is most valuable as a protector of trees of caterpillar pests, such as the fall web-worm, the tussock-moth, the cat- littered with the wings of moths whose alpa sphinx and others, but must pass bodies had been eaten. We might to some of the other enemies of trees, continue to enumerate the bird enemies Plant-lice infest trees of almost all

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