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NEW PEST ATTACKS TREES
Maryland Forestry Officials See
Dry Weather as a Cause.
Special Dispatch to The Star
BALTIMORE, August 29.—The
foliage of shade and forest trees in
Maryland is being attacked by another
insect pest, the hyphauteria cunea
according to State forestry officials.
Nearly a dozen other varieties of
tree pests have made their appearance
in this section within the past
few months, it was said. Dry weather
during the Spring and early Summer
was said to be favorable to propagation
of the insects and caterpillars.
The new tree pest also is known as
the Fall web worm, according to Assistant
Pfeiffer. It is so named because it
appears in the late Summer or Autumn
and spins spiderlike webs around
infested parts of trees.