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The potato tuber worm was recorded for the first time from 
Nebraska where it seriously injured about 125 bushels of potatoes 
in Cass County. 
The Mexican bean beetle was unusually troublesome late in the 
season from South Carolina to Missouri and southward to the Gulf. 
The banded cucumber beetle was from moderately to seriously 
abundant over the southern part of the Gulf States. 
A very heavy outbreak of the Hawaiian beet webworm was report- 
ed from the Norfolk area of Virginia. Larvae were damaging spinach 
and beets. 
Fall webworms were unusually severe in New England and along 
the Atlantic seaboard from Virginia to Florida. In the East Central 
States, Indiana and Missouri reported these insects in large numbers. 
Heavy infestations were also reported from Mississippi. 
A heavy outbreak of walkingsticks in forest lands, particularly 
in locust trees, was reported from Virginia .and Tennessee. 
The bronzed birch borer was seriously damaging yellow birch 
in the northern New England States. 
The European spruce sawfly still presents a serious problem 
in the northern New England States. 
