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GRAIN APHIDS 
Only a single report on the green "bug ( Toxp-ptera graminum Rond. ) was 
received during the year, this coming from Holt County, Nebr. , about the 
middle of May. Several reports of damage by the English grain aphid 
( Macro siphum granarium Kby. ) . however, were received from the East Central 
States, narticularly from Indiana and Michigan. 
CORK EAR r ;0BM 
The first report on the corn ear worm ( Heliothis obsoleta Fab.) for 
this year was received on February 10 Then eggs were observed in Galveston 
County, Tex. On March 2 two larvae were found at the same place. Last 
year the first eggs were observed March 27 at College Station, Tex., indi- 
cating a difference of five weeks in the advance of this season over last. 
By the last veelt in May larvae were observed injuring buds and tassels of 
corn in South Carolina. Toward the end of the month damage was becoming 
conspicuous on tomatoes and corn throughout the Gulf region. During the 
first week in June this insect became seriously abundant in the sweet corn 
growing section around Foley, Ala., injury running as high as 5 per cent 
of the ears infested. Similar reports of damage about this time were re- 
ceived from Mississippi and Louisiana. Adult moths, eggs, and newly 
hatched larvae were starting to appear as far north as Maryland and Nebraska 
by the middle of June. Early in July damage to early tomatoes and sweet 
corn plants were received from Ohio, Illinois, westward to South Dakota 
and Nebraska, and southward to the Gulf. Owing to the early appearance 
of this insect in the upper -part of its range, ears had not yet formed on 
corn plants and the damage was very conspicuous in the cornstalks. This oc- 
casioned considerable alarm in the region west of that known to be infested 
by the European corn borer, the corn ear worms being mistaken for the in- 
troduced pest. An unusual type of injury was observed in Kansas, where 
the larvae originally infesting a cover crop of hairy vetch attacked the 
fruit in an apple orchard as high as 6 or 8 feet above the ground, much of 
the fruit being entirely eaten out, leaving the empty skins hanging to the 
tree. The damage was particu.lai.rly severe in low-headed trees where branch- 
es touched the vetch. As the summer advanced it became apparent that in 
the Middle Atlantic, East Central, North Central, and West Central States., 
damage was decidedly severe, although probably not unprecedented. During 
the fall months reports of injury throughout New England indicated that 
this insect was more prevalent in that section than it had been in the 
preceding ten years. 
EALL AEinWORM 
During July the fall armyworm ( Lauhygm a fr ugj-p erda S. & A. ) developed 
a typical outbreak in the Everglades district of Florida, extending as far 
northward as Pinellas and Polk Counties. Light infestations about Baton 
Rouge Parish in Louisiana were reported in July; these, however, undoubted- 
ly had been under way during late June, as the larvae were mature and many . 
had entered the ground at the time of observation, July 17. Daring July 
