Reading the Report of the State Entomologist on Injurious and other Insects of the State of New York

April 6. 

P. M. — To New Bedford Library. 

Mr. Ingraham, the librarian, says that he once saw frog-spawn in New Bedford the 4th of March. 

Take out Emmons’s Report on the insects injurious to vegetation in New York. See a plate of the Colias Philodice, or common sulphur-yellow butterfly, male and female of different tinge. 

Areoda lanigera is apparently the common yellow dor-bug. 

Arthur has Tabanus, the great horse-fly. 

Emmons says of Scutelleridae: “The disagreeable smelling bugs that frequent berry bushes and strawberry vines belong here. . . . Of this family the genus Pentatoma is one of the most common and feeds upon the juice of plants. Sometimes it has only to pass over a fruit, to impart to it its offensive odor.” The one represented looks like the huckleberry one.

H. D. Thoreau, Journal, April 6, 1857

Frog-spawn. See April 4, 1857 ("Caught a croaking frog . . .. Nearby was its spawn, in very handsome spherical masses of transparent jelly. . . consisting of globules. . . with a black or dark centre as big as a large shot.")