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Hew York, L, A, Carruth (August 4): In the Hudson VoAloy, a few sccond- 
gcnera,tion eggs have Hcen loud although the rate of oviuosition \» 7 a,s low 
last week ov/ing to weather conditions. In the Syracuse area our test 
piece averaged hotween 6 and 7 "borers x)or plaat in the untreated area. 
Apparently about 5 percent of the "borers pupa.ted in that area. A test 
field near Rochester showed nearly 10 "borers per plant in the untreated 
area this week x^rhile one in lTia.gara County a week ago shov/ed an infosta,- 
tion of a"bout l 6 "borers per plant in the checks, A few scattered fields 
on Long Island showed sono first-generation "borer injury, although nost 
of the early corn has "been nuch cleaner thannsual of all insect injury, 
G-, S, R, Hervey (July 28): In \A 7 estern Hev/ York, the situa.tion appears 
to "bo a"bout the sane as last season. Infestation is rather general rnd 
varies in intensity in different fields, Ohsorva,tions show that the 
nost serious infestations are in Niagara County, In one field in this 
area Ihuro is an avcrD.ge of a"bout 15 "borers per plejnt, which noans 
practically a tota/i loss. Borers are in all stages of growth, Round 
a"bout 3 "CO 4 jeorcent pupation of the first "brood around Syracuse and 
just a trace of pupation in Niagara. County, 
Now Jersey, A. M, Tance (l94l)j Early market sweet corn in western Burling- 
ton Comity more heavily infested than in 1940, In a survey of 29 of the 
earliest and nost heavily infested fields in the sane county, S. B, 
Carter found an average of 8,9 "borers per plant in 194l, as compared 
with 5«1 in "tHo same num"ber of fields in tha.t section in 1940, In 9i 
or 31 percent of the Now Jersey fields, the corn wa.s infested with 
from 11 to 19 "borers per plant, 
Ohio, T, H, Parks (August 26): Avoreg© populations up to 8 "borers per stalk 
ane "iieing found in some of the nost susccpti"blc hy"brid strains of corn! 
Some had transformed to the loupal stage "by the middle of August, which 
will result in nurhers of second-hro'od moths "by Soptemher, Infestation 
over northv/estern Ohio is sonewha.t lighter than in 1940, 
A, M, Yamce (l94l): Early riarket sweet corn in the vicinity of 
Toledo more heavily infested than in 1940, At Toledo, the average 
nurfoor of borers per pliant in 25 fields of early sweet corn in 194l 
Was 12,4 in corpornison v;ith 5 in 1940, In 15 , or 60 percent of the 
fields examined, the corn contained 10 to 18 borers per plant. One of 
the fields observed near Toledo averaged 3 I borers per olant and another 
25. 
Illinois, C, C, Comj 3 ton (August 23 ): Two-brooded form has shown a narked 
increase in the area a.round Nichert in Kankakee County, and Des Plaines 
in Cook County, Most of the la.rvao ha.d pupakod by the end of the first 
v;cek in August, and in^manj'' cases second-brood moths ha.d emerged, 
Michigan, A. M. Vance (l94l): Eive fields of sweet corn near Erie aver- 
aged 10,7 borers per plant. 
