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CORN BILIBUGS (C alendra spp.) 
Indiana, J. J. Davis (June 22): Billbugs (species undetermined) were very- 
destructive to several fields of corn, according to information received 
on June l8» 
Minnesota. A. G. Ruggles (June 26): £. a equalis Gyll. reported from Redwing 
and St. Paul on corn; C_. pertinax Oliv. Marshall reported on corn. 
Iowa. C. J. Drake (June 25): Many fields of corn here and there have been 
badly injured, or entirely destroyed by billbugs ( several .species) this 
spring. 
North Dakota. J. A. Munro (June 14): The clay-colored billbug (£• aequalis ) 
is reported as very abundant in a farm yard at Eldridge, Stutsman County. 
Nebraska. M. H. Swenk (June 20): Timothy billbugs (£, parvulus Gyll.) were 
reported to be destroying corn on May 2.6 in Richardson County. The 
clay-colored billbug was reported as destroying corn in Madison County 
on June 7° On June 20 a Lancaster County farmer brought in some corn 
destroyed by the latter species. 
Alabama. J. M. Robinson (June 23): Corn billbugs are moderately abundant at 
Spring Hill. 
ALFALFA 
ALFALFA WEEVIL ( Hyp era postica Gyll.) 
Idaho. C. Wakeland (June 19): No injury is reported in southern or south- 
western Idaho but the weevil is seriously injuring alfalfa in the upper 
Snake River Valley where spraying is being done for control. 
California. A. E. Michelbacher (June 23): Over its entire range in central 
California the alfalfa weevil^has shown an increase in numbers during 
the past month. One June 15 as high as 122 larvae to 100 sweeps were 
collected in the Tracy area. About Pleasanton on June l8, counts as 
high as 225 larvae were taken, while in the Niles district collections of 
over 1,000 larvae were made. Most of the larvae collected were snail, 
many being very small. Many of these larvae are evidently the beginning 
of a second brood. 
SUGARCANE 
SUGARCANE BEETLE ( Euetheola rug ic en s Lee.) 
Louisiana. J. W. Ingram, W. A. Douglas, and E. K. Bynum (June): Beetle in- 
jury in the sugarcane section v;as practically over the last of June. The 
heaviest injury occurred during May. Loss from injury to sugarcane was 
40 to 50 percent less than in the 3 years. This decrease was due partly 
to the growing of varieties giving a lcrger number of plants per acre and 
having greater recovery ability on lana that is subject to heavy beetle in- 
jury, and in part to increased rainfall at the time of injury, which stimu- 
lated growth and increased recovery. 
