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WKEAT WIREWORM ( Agriotes nancus Say) 
Maine. J. H. Hankins (September 24): let weather ha^ caused the infestation in 
central Maine of ripe and green tomato fruit where t.he tomatoes are in con- 
tact with the aril. The main crop of potato is showing some injury where 
digging-. is Toeing done. 
FOTATO TUBER MOTH ( Gnorinoschena operculella Zell. ) 
North Carolina. Z. P. Metcalf (September 30): Pound doing serious damage to Irish 
potatoes in Gaston County. 
Tennessee. G. M. Bentley (S e pteriber 26): Reported in Lawrence County in very 
limited numbers. (No host plant given.) • . ' 
Louisiana. C. 0. Eddy (September l): Potato -and noth which .emerged from the 
potato collected at Saint Benedict on August 28. (Det. by A. Busck. ) 
California. A. E. Michelbacher (September 22): In the San Jose region there is a 
light- infestation on tomatoes. 
J. Wilcox (September 15) : In the later pickings of one field. at Huntington 
Beach, from 15 to 20 percent of the tomatoes are infested. Infestation 
apparently started from stored potatoes. . . 
TOMATO PITT/ ORM ( Gnor imps chema lvcopers icella Busck). 
California, A. E. Michelbacher (September 22): In the San Jose region only a 
single larva has been taken on tomatoes. 
CORN EAR WORM ( Heliothis obsolota P. ) 
Virginia. H. G. Walker and L. D. Anderson (September 2j): A field of snap beans 
in the Western 3ranch section of Norfolk County was very seriously injured 
with what appeared t^ be the corn ear worn. 
California. J. Wilcox and M. W. Stone (September 19): The first three pickings 
in a 20-acre field at Garden Grove, southern Calif ornia, of me dium- 1 o- 1 at e 
tomatoes in the plots dusted with cube. (checks) averaged 35— percent infesta- 
tion, this being heavier than that in any of the early fields. 
.A,. E. Michelbacher (September 22): Infestation not serious in the northern 
tonato-pr educing section of the State. On September 8 a survey made in the 
southern end of the Santa Clara Valley showed infestation ranging from 0 to 
2 percent. In fields around San Prancisco Bay infestation was late in start- 
ing, At San Jose, where tomatoes are usually seriously attacked, it was not 
necessary to dust until September 1. Infestation at Pleasanton is light, 
averaging about 1.5 percent in undusted fields. Infestation s lowly building 
up in the Brentwood area. Survey made on September 21 showed infestation 
ranging from 2 to 3 percent in undusted fields. 
