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Oorn silking was 95 "to 100 pcrcont infostod iDy Juno 2, and on Juno l6 
thcro woro from 1 to 5 larwao por oar. A^bout 50 porcont of tho oars 
will be marketable, 
Missouri. L, Hasenan (jvaio 25); On June 16, second, third, ojid fourth 
instars were- obsorved feeding in the buds and tassels of sweet and 
pop' corn. In one case 30 percent of tho buds wore attacked in pop 
corn, 
TJteh., G-, i’. Znov;lton (June 4): Adults arc abundant at Milford, 
ZUHOPHiU COEiT BOEEH ( P^uaustn, nubilalis Hbn,) 
Connecticut, U. Turner (June 23 )? After the earliest pupation and emergence 
on record, there is apparently a lighter infest-;\tion than usual in 
corn. Moths a.re still present, and this late infestation may build up 
a larger popula.tioa, 
Mei-; York, E, Y. State Coll. Agr. Fe'rfs Letter (May 26): In the Hudson 
Valley emergence had reached the 30~percent level on May 24 and eggs 
were being land on the eanlier plantings of sweet corn. In one field 
eggs wore alrea.d 3 r present on th.at dado to tho extent of 5 O m.asses 
per 100 plants, Potuid the first borers in Eockland County on May 29 . 
(June 9)s Some fields shov;ed as high an an average of 1 egg mass 
per plant in Columbia- County in eastern Hevr York on Juno 6, but 
most fields showed aloout 12 manses per 100 plants with egg laying 
continuing, (June 23 ) ^ In western Hevr York, 79 percent of the 
borers had pupa-tod by, June 20 in Monroe County. Ho mioth emergence was 
obsorved, 
Virginia-a H. C. Walker and L. D. Anderson (juno 27 ) J The European corn 
borer is not so a-bundant in pota-toos in Princess Anne County;" a-s it 
was la- st yca-r. The hot dry spring seemed to prolong emergence, so 
tha-t moths from the ovorvrintoring genoration of borers wore still 
present in tho field when moths of the nov; generation began emerging 
from potatcoso 
SOUTHEEH COEITSTALZ 30EEP. ( Biatra-oa- crambidoidos Grotc) 
Virginia, H, G, Walker a-nd L. B. Anderson (June 2j)i Larvae of the southern 
cornstalk borer are rather abundant in severa-1 fields of early sweet 
corn in Horfolk and Princess Anne Counties, 
South Carolina, 0, L. Cartwright (June 5 )' Severels’ injured sections of 
two cornfields in Elorence County, 
Georgia, T, L. Bissell (June 13)1 At Experiment, corn which is from 11 
to 26 inches tall is rather heavily infostod. Some stalks vrere 
found vnth youngest loaf dead, other loaves slightly ragged, and 
largo burrows in tho base of tho stalk. Such stalks have from one to 
thro.c larvao, and one pupa was found. 
