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STRAWBERRY 
STRAWBERRY CROWN BORER ( Tyloderma fragariae Riley) 
Tennessee. G. M. Bentley (September 26); Slight infestations found in Hamilton, 
Rhea, Meigs, and Roane Counties in the proximity of abandoned fields of 
strawberries that had not been turned under. 
Nebraska. M. H. Swenk (September 20 ) : Reported on September 19 as having damaged 
strawberry plants in Richardson County. 
TOBACCO 
TOBACCO ELEA BEETLE ( Epitrix parvula E. ) 
Tennessee. L. B. Scott (September 2l): Less abundant in north-central Tennessee 
than in a normal year. Damage moderate. 
HORNWORMS ( Erotoparce spp, ) 
North Carolina. G. B. Merrill (August): Tobacco worm (P. quinqueraaculata Haw.) 
moderately abundant on tobacco plants in the Valle Crucis area, Watauga 
County. 
Tennessee, L. 3. Scott (September 2l): Hornworms less than normally abundant 
prior to the last week in August when the worms appeared in large numbers. 
Most of the crop had been harvested. Some of the late— harvested tobacco 
was seriously damaged in the curing barns. 
TOBACCO MOTH ( Ephestia elutella Kbn.) 
Virginia. C. R. Willey and E. R. Ereund (September 22): Larvae were received 
from Danville' on September S, where they w re damaging tobacco, apparently 
in pack houses. (Det. by W. D. Reed.) 
North Carolina. W. H. White (August): The following is taken from E-450, 
September 1938: "During the latter part of August several reports were 
received that the tobacco moth was present and injuring tobacco on the 
sticks in growers* pack houses in North Carolina. The worms or larvae 
were found by the growers when grading the first curings of tobacco. 
While the tobacco moth is not a new pest of stored tobacco in this country 
or in southern Europe, this is the first time the insect has' been known to 
occur in farmers* pack houses end cause any noticeable damage. Over 40 
years ago the tobacco moth was known in the United States , but it was not 
recognized as a pest in tobacco warehouses until 1930 . when it was found at 
Richmond, Va. Since that time the insect has been recognized as a pest of 
considerable importance in tobacco storage houses and has shown a particular 
fondness for the iraported-cigarette and the flue-cured types of tobaccos." 
