ARMY CUTWORM ( Chori z agroti s auxiliari s Grote) 
Nebraska. H. D. Tate (April l6): Reported as attacking winter whea.t in 
Banner County on March 17 and Dundy and Hitchcock Counties on March 
19, and as damaging pasture in Hayes County on March 24. 
Kansas. B, M. Gaddis (March 30-April 5) : Infestations were reported in 
the following counties during the week: Mead, one case reported; 
Edwards, a general infestation confined to grasslands from which the 
worms were moving into crops; Rush, a light, scattered infestation; 
Ellis, a serious general infestation. (April 13—19 ) I Cool and rainy 
weather during the last 3 weeks has retarded cutworm development and 
feeding and has permitted rapid growth of winter wheat end, as a re- 
sult, army cutworms have done comparatively little damage. Some dam- 
age is reported in areas where alfalfa, is the principal crop and com- 
plete destruction of several fields- of new seedings is reported- in 
Stafford and Reno Counties. 
Montana. H. B. Mills (April 4): Quite abundant but spotted on wheat • around 
Carban and Yellowstone, Last general outbreak. occurred in 1931 hut some 
injury was sustained in 1937 * 
Wyoming. B. M. Gaddis (April I 3 -I 9 )' Army cutworm infestations are re- 
ported in Campbell and Goshen Counties; severity of infestation has 
not been determined, owing to weather conditions. 
Colorado. S. C. McCampbell (March): Heavy infestations reported through- 
out the month in Larimer, Morgan, Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Yuma, 
Weld, and Denver Counties, in the northeastern section of the State. 
In most cases the larvae are moving into wheatfields from adjacent 
sod land, 
■ *: t B. M. . Gaddis. (March 30-April 5) : Heavy infestations in pasture 
and moderate infestations in whea.t in an area southeast of Peetz, 
Logan County. Light localized infestations were found in pasture 
land in Phillips and Sedgwick Counties and in the sandhills north of 
Wray, in Yuma County. A moderate infestation in winter wheat and 
range land was found south of Eckley, in Yuma County. (April 13-19) ; 
Surveys were made during the week in Weld, Larimer, Morgan, Washington, 
Logan, Adams, and Arapahoe Counties. Armv cutworms were found at 
most stops made in the aforementioned counties, but in only a few in- 
stances was there a he^vy crop damage and this was chiefly to winter 
wheat. One supervisor estimated that throughout this area, approxi- 
mately 40 percent of the worms have reached maturity and that pupation 
of many will occur within the next 7 to 10 days. The heaviest damage 
observed during the last few days occurred, near Gary, Washington County. 
In 2 fields almost total destruction had. occurred for approximately 3 
rods into the fields. At a point 3 rods within the fields, cutworms 
averaged 14 and 9 P er square foot* respectively. An infestation of 
moderate intensity located in the foothills west of Fort Collins was 
found to have been reduced by baiting to a light infestation. Light 
