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COHN EAR WORM ( Heliothis arnigera Him.) 
Georgia. T. L. Bissell (May 10): A few eggs on tomato leaves at Clarkston, central 
part of the State. Evidence of larvae feeding on leaves, hut none found. 
(May 19): Injuring com leaves at Experiment, starting on the open leaves and 
going into the hud. The largest .are about 3 /8 inch long. Attacking corn 
planted on April 5» rather than younger' corn. Com following Austrian peas 
at Experiment now attacked hy corn ear worm. Mere abundant in the whole field 
than other insects. Corn now showing hud injury. 
P. M. Gilmer and P. A, Glick (May 6): A few specimens noted in Tift, Berrien 
Lowndes, Echols, and Cook Counties, southern Georgia. In one or two vetch 
fields, some injury to peach with vetch cover observed. None on cotton. 
Florida, H, T. Eernald (May 22); Com in the markets at Winter Park shows con- 
siderable injury. 
Mississippi. C. Lyle (May 23): Larvae received from Pearl River County, where 
small Satsuma oranges were injured, and from Forrest County, where they were 
feeding on corn .plants, 
Louisiana. C. 0, Eddy (May 25 ): Exceedingly abundant on the silk of early sweet 
corn. 
Illinois. R. A. Blanchard (May ll): Hibernation cages located both in sandy and 
prairie-type soils in east-central Illinois failed to show any papal survival 
following the winter of 193 &- 39 * • ■ 
Missouri. J. M. Magner (May ll); Pupae survived' the winter of 1938-39 ih hiberna- 
tion cages in unprotected soil in the vicinity of St. Louis. A cage in liaht 
sandy soil showed 23 -percent survival, whereas a cage in clay loam’ soil had 
only 3-P°rcent survival. 
California. R. E. Campbell and J. Wilcox (May 19 ): A 10 -acre field, with cars 
about two-thirds grown, was badly infested in Orange County, southern Cali- 
fornia; over 50 -percent of the ears already infested, and many eggs on the 
silks. In another nearby 10-acro field of younger corn, from 20 to 30 percent 
of the tassels were infested. In a third still younger field, an occasional 
larva was feeding on the foliage. 
EUROPEAN CORN BORER ( Pyrausta nubilalis Hbn.) 
Massachusetts . A. I. Bourne (May 23 ): In the Connecticut Valley section of 
Hanpshire County, approximately 20 to 25 percent of the overwintered larvae 
have pupated. Where areas were flooded by the hurricane last September larvae 
have survived the winter without difficulty, and approximately the same pro- 
portion of pupation has taken place as in cornstalks grown above flood levels. 
