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Wireworms are injuriously abundant in New York and Connecticut* 
The prairie grain wireworm is injuring seed potato in North Dakota, 
The sugar beet wireworm was reported as damaging corn, sugar beets, * 
..onions, lima beans, and tomato .in.~southern Idaho, southeastern 
Washington, and southern California* 
An outbreak of Say*e stinkbug is occurring in southeastern 
Arizona, where wheat and barley are being severely damaged* 
Most of the chinch bugs had migrated from winter quarters to 
small-grain fields by the third week in the month. ^ In one county in 
Iowa the insect was occurring in corn. The insect is sufficiently 
numerous in parts of Illinois, southern' Iowa, southeastern Nebraska, 
and northeastern Oklahoma to cause' considerable injury to small grains 
and later serious damage to corn, unless prevented by natural or 
artificial means. : • -* . , 
The pea aphid severely injured alfalfa in Arizona, Utah, and ■ 
Nevada, The attack in Washington and Oregon does not appear so 
severe as usual* No injury tO‘ peas has been reported in the East, 
The eastern tent caterpillar is abundant in the northeastern 
part of the country; however, it is not so abundant as it has been • 
during the last few years* , ' 
The codling moth began to emerge on May 6 in southern Indiana, 
western Kentucky, and southern Missouri, and also* in Maryland, 
although moths were not observed in Virginia, Delaware, and Ohio 
until’ the 15th of the month. No emergence has been reported from 
New York,' -The cool» rainy weather* hindered oviposition in all 
Eastern and .Middle Western localities; however, eggs -were' observed 
• as early as May 10 and larvae by May 21 in the lower Ohio Valley* 
The season is early in the Pacific Northwest, moths being observed 
on April 17 in the Yakima district and on April 22 ih the Wenatchee 
district of Washington, No egg laying reported in the Willamette 
Valley of Oregon up to May 18* 
The' fruit tree leaf roller is unusually abundant in New York 
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri* 
Emit aphids are unusually scarce throughout the East, The 
rosy apple aphid seemed to be building up populations slightly in 
. New York, Pennsylvania, Indiana, and Kentucky by the end of the month. 
