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T R U C K - C R. 0 ?. INSECTS 
COEN EAR WORM (H eliothis armigera Hbn. ) 
Maryland. E. N. Cory (October 4): Reported as attacking broccoli 
at Allen, Wicomico County, and damaging snap beans at Salisbury. 
Virginia. H. G. Walker and L. B. Anderson (October 24): A great 
deal of damage in many beanfields in eastern Virginia. One 
6o -acre field of lima beans near Accomac was so badly damaged 
that no attempt was made to pick the beans. Nearly all fields 
of snap beans in Norfolk and Princess Anne Counties and on the 
Eastern Shore more or less severely damaged. Some damage in 
young peafields, where worms fed on blossoms and young pods. 
A 250-acre field of broccoli near Accomac rather heavily in- 
fested, counts showing an average of from 5 to 10 larvae per 
plant, with many plants having as high as 25 larvae. (Last 
specimens dot. by C. Heinrich.) 
North Carolina. L. W. Brannon (September 28): Larvae causing severe 
damage to blossoms and pods in a 10-acro field of bush lima 
beans at Elizabeth City. Pods injured to the extent that very 
few marketable pods were harvested. Severe damage to green 
pea blossoms and pods at Moyock. (Bet. by C. Heinrich.) 
Georgia. T. L. Bissell (September 29): Heavy infestation of larvae 
on collards at Clarkston, central Georgia. 
Mississippi. C. Lyle and assistants (October 25): Injury to tomatoe 
reported from the Meridian area and in Madison County early in 
October. Injury to chrysanthemums reported at State College. 
Utah. G. E. Kn owl ton (October 1): Increased injury to tomatoes 
reported in the Murray area for the week beginning September 25 . 
California. R. E. Campbell (October 4): Considerable damage to 
lettuce appeared last week in the Salinas Valley area. 
A. E. Michelbacher (October 23): Infestations in tomato 
fields in the northern producing region of Californio, as follows 
0 to 12 percent in Alameda County on October 2; 0 to 20 percent 
in Madera County on October 1 to 8 percent in Merced County; 
1 to 10 percent in Stanislaus County on October 10; less than 
1 percent to 10 percent in San Benito County on October 17; 
1 to 29 percent in Monterey County; and 3*5 to 29 percent in 
Santa Cruz County on October 19. Many of the larvae observed 
in the last-named county were very small, indicating that the 
infestation had set in very late in the season. 
