Giilcna, .Jo Daviess Coiiiily, 111., May 23, 1SS7. I .s(mu1 a l)()\ contaiiuiifi worms 

 which are very dostnietive to com plant wl on spriiifj;-l)n>akiiiK. [This was Cranibus 

 lukoh'llus.] 



Hoopeston, Vermilion County, 111., August 2, 1888. About three weeks ago 

 noticed that the blue-grass on my lawn was beginning to die in spots. Watering 

 did no good. On examination I found worms, like those sent you to-day by mail, 

 averaging one or more to the stjuare inch. They cut off the blue-gra.s.s at tlu; to]) 

 of the ground, but do not disturb the timothy or white clover. 



Payson, Adams County, 111., May 21, 1880. I find a few of the corn root web- 

 worms on a piece of clover .sod plowed this spring and planted .\pril 30 and May 1 . 

 I find them as often on clover growing in the fieldjas in the hills of corn, and I think 

 they may breed in the clover. The field was planted to corn in 1881 and 1882, 

 sowed to wheat in the fall of that year and again the year following, sowed to clover 

 in March, 1885, this being plowed up in the spring of 1886 and planted to corn. 



Smithfield, Fulton County, 111., May 31, 1887. I mail specimens of a worm 

 tliat is cutting the corn planted on sod. They are likely to take the third planting, 

 and are working some on stubble. [This was Crambus trisectus.] 



Galesburg, Knox (.ounty, 111., May 2, 1887. I send you a few grubs that have 

 been eating up tlie sod corn. I find them on meadow plowed up last fall, also on 

 meadow plowed this spring. They ate up nearly every hill of sod corn, but did not 

 touch corn on old ground n(>xt to it. I replanted ten days ago. The new planting 

 is now big enough to plow, and is all right as yet. [These larvie belonged to C. tri- 

 sectus and C. mutabilis.] 



May 25. I learn that tli(> corn on a larg(> scope of country is injured in the 

 same way as mine. One man is planting his sod corn to-day for the third time. 



Eden, Peoria County, 111., May ID, 1887. I send by this mail a box of worms 

 found in a corn field on our farm. The field was an old timothy meadow plowed 

 this spring and planted about the 5th of May. They are taking the corn here very 

 rapidly. 



Randolph, Mcl^ean County, III., May 10, 1887. I send you a sample of worms 

 destroying our corn. The land is timothy sod broken the first two weeks in April, 

 and planted the first of May. It has been in meadow for five years. On a part of 

 it considerable clover is growing from seed sown two years ago, and on this part the 

 worms are not so bad. The rest of the corn is taken clean, eaten off just above the 

 groiuid. We find the worms an inch deep in the ground, the dirt being stuck 

 together. Some of them are very small; others are half an iiicli long. [C. tri- 

 sectus and C. mutahilis.] 



Hanover, Jo Daviess County, III., May 24, 1887. I inclose several specimens 

 of worms which have done a great deal of damage to corn in this county this spring. 

 The damage has been exclusively on sod grovmd, both fall and spring plowing 

 suffering alike. From reports from different parts of this county I learn that the 

 ravages of- this worm an; general throughout the county. The plant is attacked 

 just at the surface of the ground, where the worm weaves a web to protect itself 

 from ants and other enemies, and then the stalk is eaten downward. One piece of 

 ten acres on rich black soil on my own farm I replant(>d entire on the 14th of Ma}', 

 and now the worms bid fair to destroy it entirely again. Hundreds of acres have been 

 replanted in my own town, and the area of ground in the county damaged by this 

 worm will reach into the thousand acres. [C. hitcolcUus.] 



Hamlet, Mercer County, 111., May 19, 1887. My corn is infested with a larva 

 that is a stranger to me. This morning 1 collected a few of them and put them in 

 a box directed to you. They do their work at night above ground, and mostly on 

 the uy)f)er ])art of the leaves, but often cut the stalk off at the ba8(> of the leaves. 



