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VARI.TSATIID FRITILLARY ( Bnptoieta Claudia Cram.) 
Tennessee C. M. Packard (Jul;- S): Variegated fritillary larvae were 
observed doing commercial damage 4 miles northwest of Lewisburg, 
June 21. They were reported to have been in evidence 10 days. 
The larger portion of 13 acres of soy boans, and 1-1/2 acres of 
Kentucky Wonder beans, planted in corn have been destroyed, 
and there has been some injury to young corn. They have also 
been observed stripping all leaves from a half-acre of sweet 
pot?toes and some were feeding on melon vines. The fields had 
a considerable growth of passion-flower vines, the favorite 
food plant, on which the;'- were also feeding. Pupation is in 
progess. Adults are present in considerable numbers ovipositing 
on passion vines and ironweeds. 
CLOVER 
Tennessee 
Oregon 
A LOOP.TR ( Auto^rapha biloba Steph. ) _ 
C. M. Paclcard (July 6): Pupae of Auto~ra?ha sp. (probably 
biloba) were taken on May 30, by 1\T. H. Srowr, Lincoln County 
Agent, from the base of crimson clover plants on which larvae 
had probably been feeding in a field near Dechard, The first 
moth" appeared at light about June 7. Thousands -./ere flj'ing 
about street lights at Fayetteville on the night of June 11. 
A few stragglers appeared at light the two or three preceding 
and following evenings. 
CLOVER STD MIDG.T1 ( Das^neura le-ruminicola Lintn. ) 
L. P. Rockwood (July 3): The rains all through June after 
the 8th were very favorable for this pest, and there will probably 
be much more than a normal infestation of tlie seed crop in fields 
not cut for hay before June 6, in Willamette Valley. 
ALFALFA 
Colorado 
ALFALFA WIT7VIL ( Phytonomus posticus G-yll. ) 
C. P. Gillette (July 22): The alfalfa weevil is moderately 
abundant in the western part of the State, There are no new 
areas of importance. 
Idaho 
C. Wakcland (June 30): Southwestern Idaho has been little 
affected this season and the danger point is now past. Quite 
severe injury occurs in alfalfa seed crops in the central and 
southeastern portions of the State and loss in general to seed 
crops where spraying is not condr.cted. 
LIBRARY 
STATE PLANT BOARD, 
