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CE3EAL AND P H'A U E - 3 E P INSECTS 
Ohio 
Indiana 
Nebraska 
Kansas 
WHEAT 
HESSIAN FLY ( Phytophaga destructor Say) 
J. S. Houser (August 22): The Hessian fly is moderately abund- 
ant. The average infestation in 1930 was 6.8 per Cent; in 1931, 
12.2 per cent. There has been more damage than ior several years, 
J. J. Davis (August 22): The Hessian fly is moderately abund- 
ant in isolated localities. 
M, H. Swenk (August 20): The Hessian fly is moderately abund- 
ant in southeastern Nebraska. 
H. R. Bryson (August 23): Dr. R. H. Fainter reports finding- 
eggs on wheat at the agronomy farm at Manhattan but that they 
were not especially abundant. 
New York 
Wisconsin 
West Virginia 
Virginia 
CORN 
EUROPEAN CORN BORER ( Pyrausta n ubilalis Hbn . ) 
R. D. Glasgow (August 26): The European corn borer has been 
moderately abundant in sweet corn this year in Albany County. 
E. L. Chambers (August 18): Two spots in a. 12-acre field of 
••corn near the edge of Lake Michigan about 200 feet apart showed 
infestation with the corn borer. Three specimens were taken 
from one stalk, all above the ear. This is the first record of 
the corn borer in Wisconsin, (Mo sel, Sheboygan County.) 
CORN EAR WORM ( Heliothis ob sol eta Fab. ) 
L. M. Peairs (July 31): The corn ear worm is very abundant in 
Morgantown and generally over the State. Early injury to foliage 
and tassels war; unusual. 
H. G. Walker (August 24): The corn ear worm was very injurious 
to sweet corn in the Ebrfolk district. Nearly all of the ears 
were destroyed by this insect. 
North Carolina Z. P. Metcalf (August): The corn car worm is very abundant. 
Georgia 
Ohio 
C. H. Alden (August 22): The corn ear worm is moderately abund- 
ant. Many full-grown larvae have been found in roasting ears. 
E. W. Mendenhall (August 1): The corn ear worm is quite bad 
on sweet corn in the*vicinity of Columbus and throughout south- 
western Ohio. 
