I I'T S 5 C T P S T S IT H V P Y BULLETIN 
Vol. 21 
ITovenUer 1, 194l 
No. 9 
TIJ] I-iCilU IHPOUTAj'TT UECOT^LS EOR OCTOBER 
Uhitc otiLs were reporti^d as doin-'^ considerable dcxirpe in Indiana and 
Ill.inois, 
Uiroworns were rep-xted as injuring nota-toes in Nev/ Ena;la.nd, onions in 
Hinnesota, and v/heat in Oklaliona, 
PaJl arn;'a;orns vrere aJ.rnorr.ally a.bundant in ITev/ Ena;land and the Middle 
Atlan-tic States, vrith severe darape reported fron Mississippi, Missouri, and 
Te.Ta.s, Tiie;.r were aAso reported from Nebraska. 
The European corn borer was reported from sections of Maryland and 
Virginia., v/hich'are in the vicinity of Nashin"ton, D, C, This appears to 
bo the first record from this locality. It was a.lso reported for the first 
tine from eipht nei' counties in southern Yirpinin. This insect vras seriously 
prevalent in Ohio and parts of Indiaoia, In Illinois about .half of the counties 
of the State a.ro infested, ^t v'a.s also r-cordod for the first tine from three 
additional counties in Uiscousin, 
The chinch bup v.oas ni .•ra tina to hibernation quarters in Indiana, Illinois, 
and Missouri, 
The southwestern corn borer ca.used considerable dapiape in southv/estern 
Kansa.s and parts of Oklahoma, 
Tile sorphun v.robworn w&e very d'-structive to feterita and other prain 
sor.qhuns in Oklahoma and parts of Texas, and was a.lso repented from Indiana, 
Tile velvctbea.n caterpillar v^as generally reported fro-’ the South Atlantic 
States and the Gulf ropion. 
An increa.se in the loomlations of tlio San Jose scale v.-as reported from 
the East Centra.l States, 
Neather conditions have been favora,ble for the dove lo Tine nt of Comstock* s 
nealybutq and hif^h populations of overwintering eggs in parts of Virginia and 
Ohio, 
The green stinlibug has almost com.plotoly destroyed to.natoes, beans, and. 
peas over the southern half of Ala,bama, Vetches, Austrian v/inter pea.s, and 
crimson clover very seriously daiia.ged on about 200,000 acres in the Uillanette 
Va.llov, Or eg. by garden slugs. 
