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next year will be equal or greater and more widespread than the present 

 year unless weather or other natural conditions prevent. 



Blister beetles (Epicauta vittata, E. cinerea, E. marginata, E. pennsyl- 

 vanica, and Macrobasis unicolor) were more abundant than usual, 

 attacking potatoes, tomatoes, and other garden crops. This appears 

 to be a logical sequence following grasshopper outbreaks of recent years. 



White grubs {Lachnosterna spp.) were also more abundant than 

 usual and the reports of injury were received from many sections of 

 the state. Reports were received during the months of July, August, 

 and September, and the crops most commonly injured were com and 

 strawberries. 



During the latter part of September we began to receive reports of 

 various insects attacking alfalfa and in a few cases clover also. The 

 first of these, the alfalfa web-worm, (Loxostege similalis ) was found to 

 be damaging alfalfa in many sections of the extreme northern and north- 

 western sections of the state, the latter third of September. Alm.ost 

 simultaneously reports and specimens of the fall army worm (Laphygma 

 frugiperda) were received from the same section of the state. The crops 

 injured in this case were alfalfa and clover. A third lepidopterous larva 

 was repeatedly reported from the northern half of the state, the last 

 of September and during October. This insect resembles the corn ear- 

 worm in many respects but there seems to be certain consistent differ- 

 ences which may or may not be specific. Adults have not yet been 

 reared. 



The corn earworm (Chloridea obsoletd) was unusually abundant the 

 latter part of September and during October. It was prevalent through- 

 out the state, both field and sweet com as well as many other plants 

 being injured. There has been much fear manifested by farmers 

 throughout the state as to possible harm to cattle feeding on earworm- 

 infested corn. Observations to date indicate that corn earworm in- 

 jury and the usual moulds following such injury are not harmful to 

 farm animals but that certain other moulds which were prevalent the 

 past season, but which do not follow corn earworm injury, may under 

 certain conditions be harmful to animals. 



Another insect which was unusually abundant the latter part of 

 September and the first of October was the cotton caterpillar {Alabama 

 argillacea). These moths appeared in isolated sections of the state and 

 were reported as damaging various crops such as apple, but particularly 

 were they destructive to ever-bearing strawberries in the northern part 

 of the state. 



Insects such as the peach tree borer, codhng moth, frait tree bark 



