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florist in the northern part of the State complained bitterly of the 
ravages of the pest in his carnations set out of doors. Carnations in 
the experiment station greenhouses suffered severely in March from 
the attacks of cutworms (Peridroma saucia), which fed on the petals 
and burrowed into the unopened buds, working chiefly at night. 
The Southern turkey gnat (Simuliwm meridionale) became quite 
abundant in Wayne County during May, causing considerable uneasi- 
ness among teams working in the fields near their breeding places. 
One of these places was located not far from Wooster, in a little brook 
fed by springs and flowing over a rocky bed. Adults were abundant 
May 11, and larvee—some of them very small—and pupe, as well as 
adults, were all found on the 16th of same month. 
The Southern corn leaf-beetle (Myochrous denticollis) did not reap- 
pear in destructive abundance this year in the area where it did so 
much injury to young corn last year. We now know that it hiber- 
nates, in part at least, in the adult stage. 
Bruchophagus funebris is widely distributed over the State, and its 
injuries to red clover seed are frequently reported during autumn. 
The grapevine root worm (Fidia viticida), which was less destrue- 
tive last year than it had been for some time, seems to have taken on 
a new vigor, and is this year again very abundant on the grape. 
Strangely enough, its ravages are still mostly confined to the grape 
region about Cleveland, extending therefrom much farther to the east 
than to the west. In a small nursery, near Tiffin, some 85 miles to 
the west, a small lot of young grapevines was attacked and the 
leaves very badly eaten, while in no other part of the grounds were 
the grapevines attacked. Arsenate of lead has not given us much 
satisfaction in fighting this pest, and the results of this year’s experi- 
ments with this insecticide in the vineyards have not been very satis- 
factory, though not conclusive. 
The canker worm ( Paleacrita vernata) was present in many sections 
of the State in increasing numbers. There was some complaint of 
the inefficiency of arsenate of lead against these, but in all cases of 
failure investigated the spraying had been done in an inefficient man- 
ner, and the result could hardly have been otherwise than ineffectual. 
The corn worm (Heliothis armiger) not only attacked young grow- 
ing corn, but also worked in the broom corn, doing considerable 
damage to the latter. 
The western corn root worm (Diabrotica longicornis), though it occurs 
locally eastward to the Atlantic coast, is not known as a pest east of 
central Ohio. Its advance across the State from the west has been 
observed by entomolegists, and this advance throughout the corn- 
growing sections has been indicated in the bulletins of the experi- 
ment station. During the last nine years everyone connected with 
the entomological department of the station has watched carefully 
for the first appearance of the insect about Wooster, but not until last 
