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CORN EAR WORM ( Keliothis a r mi germ Hbn.) 
Florida. J. R. Watson (March 2j): Injuring gladiolus "by mining the 
"blossom stalk, 
Idaho, P. H. S]ni rc k (March 10): T wenty-sevon pupae, of which 25 were 
dead, were Ideated in Parma, Canyon County, by digging in corn rows 
in several fields severely infested in 1940. 
SEED CORF REDDLE ( Agonoderus lecontei Chaud. ) 
Iowa, H, E. Jaques (March): Abundant in Cedar County, in the eastern 
part of the State, and reported from Floyd County, in the northern 
part, 
ALFALFA 
ALFALFA WEEVIL ( Hyper a postica Gy 11,) 
Utah, F. V, Lieberman (March 24): Eggs present in growing alfalfa stems 
of Millard County (central)/ the third, week of Ma.rch, a month before 
the usual appearance, 
Nevada., C. G. Schweis (February 25): Larvae found on plants today, the 
earliest date ever recorded, for finding larvae in western Nevada. 
California. A, E. Michelbacher (March 26): Has caused damage only in a 
very localized area in the northwestern part of the San Joaouin 
Valley. In several fields the feeding has been heavy but damage 
has not been serious. Infestation over the valley is light, much 
less than a year ago. Number of larvae collected on March 25 in the 
infested area ranged from 0 to 2,547 per 100 sweeps,’ aS compared with 
1 to 55 P er IOC sweeps collected in the San Francisco Bay survey ma.de 
on March 20. Parasitization by Bathyplectes curculionis . Thos. of 
last- instar weevil larvae, determined by rearing out the "parasites 
from larvae collected on March l4, amounted to about 40 percent in 
the San Joaquin Valley, as compared with 92 percent in the San Fran- 
cisco Bay area,. At Pleasanton, on March 20, 4 fields were surveyed 
without a single weevil being taken. 
ALFALFA CATERPILLAR ( Celias eurytheme Bdv. ) 
South Carolina., F, Sherman (March 22): Cloveb butterflies (Colian sp.) in 
flight in small numbers at Clemson since .mid-March, 
California.. A. E, Michelbacher (March 26): Larvae of C_. eurytheme very 
scarce in San Joaquin Valley on March 25. In most" of the fields none 
were collected. 
