Table 3. Abundance of the European corn borer in early market sweet corn 
in localities surveyed from 193^ 1938-' 
State rand c canty 
Connecticut: 
New. Haven 
' , Hartford 
. Massachusetts : 
Middlesex — 
Bristol 
Eli ode Island; 
Newport-Bris tol 
. Maine: ’ 
‘York 
New York: 
Suffolk 
Nassau 
Monroe 
Orleans 
Chautauqua 
Jefferson 
Wayne 
New Jersey: 
Monmouth-Ocean • 
Burlington 
Ohio 
Lucas 
Eri e-Huron 
Cuyahoga-Lorain 
Michigan: 
Wayne 
Average borers per 
100 plants, in-- 
1974 
1335 - 
1 978 
Number 
Number 
Number 
521 (21)! 
675 
87 5 
446 
225 J 
— 
120 (l4) 
288 

135 
— 
: — 
175 (28) 
385 
— 
117 
21 (ll) 
145 ( 20 ) 
9 ( 15 ) 
— 
130 (29) 
64 
— 
126 ( 27 ) 
— i 
79 
— 
— 
70 
— 
— 
112 
25 
— 
50 ( 
268 ( 15 ) 
328 
1,751 
1,128 ( 
66 ( 
9 ( 20 ) 
285 ( 
Except as indicated otherwise by the figures given within parenthese 
25 fields were surveyed to obtain each population average. In each 
case the survey ’was confined to the earliest fields of sweet corn 
that could be found within a given locality. 
2 / 
The average numbers of borers per 100 plants in this county in 
1936 and 1937 were 469 and 79^, respectively. No other localities 
were surveyed in these 2 years. 
