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County. Early in April reports were received of injury in Hitchcock- 
County, near Stratton, and such reports continued until the end of the 
first week in May. These reports indicated about as serious injury 
in Hitchcock County as in Cheyenne County. During the latter part 
of April similar reports were received from southern Deuel County, 
and adjacent parts of Sedgwick County, Colorado. On one farm near 
Jules ourg it was reported that 100 acres of wheat had been destroyed. 
It would seem that in several western Nebraska counties this pest was 
an important minor factor in the heavy abandonment of winter wheat 
fields that has occurred this spring. 
Kansas J. W. McColloch (May 2): A map taken from the Kansas City Weekly 
Star on this date is of interest because the area of wheat failure 
and abandonment corresponds with the area where the false wireworm 
was so destructive last fall and this spring. Most reports credit 
this failure entirely to drought, but the fact that no germination 
occurred following rains indicates that the seed was injured. 
Washington M, C. Lane (May l) : There are five species of Eleodes that are found 
in and around the wheat fields of the Big Bend Region in both larval 
and adult stages. These are vandykei B}aisd.; nunennacheri . var. 
yer ucula Blaisd.; hispilabris . var. iiritabilis Blaisd.; niprina . var. 
d if f orm is Blaisd.; and h^umaralis Lee, named in the order of abundance 
of larvae found in wheat fields. There probably is no appreciable 
damage except from the first-named vandvkei . and the damage is hard 
to estimate. The. damage is to the seed when first planted, and the 
larvae are very active in the dust during fall seeding and also in the 
spring, a great many being killed by harrowing. There is no damage 
to sprouted wheat as far as can be observed. Adults are more numerous 
than normal this spring, being busy now in laying their eggs. The 
new brood of adults will not appear till the first of July, 
TIPULID LARVA 
Michigan R. H. Pettit (May 22): '. Tipulid larvae were reported as almost 
»o*ering new-plowed land at Elwell on the 18th, and were accompanied 
by larvae of 3ibio (probably albipennis ) . 
CORN 
CORN EARWORM ( Beliothis obsoleta Fab.) 
Ohio H. A. Gossard (May 11) : Observations taken at Chillicothe do not 
indicate that moths of the corn earworm have yet emerged or become 
active . 
Louisiana T. E. Holloway and W. E. Haley (May 17): In Orleans Parish large 
larvae of the corn earworm are in young corn along the lake shore of 
Little Woods . 
