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very severe damage to sweet corn in the Tia Juana Valley of California was 
reported, and similar reports rerc received from parts of Los Angeles 
County. Here late sweet' corn was almost entirely ruined and the tonnage 
of field corn Fas severely reduced. By early fall this insect was trouble- 
some as far north as Monterey County, Calif., attacking lettuce and toma- 
toes. As a whole, however, the year was not one of phenominal damage "by 
this insect. 
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During April moths of the armyworn ( Cirphis unipuncta Haw.) were col- 
lected. in large numbers in bait pans in New Mexico. About the middle of 
May an outbreak developed in 11 counties in north-central Texas and simi- 
lar outbreaks developed in several Delta counties in Mississippi. Much 
smaller and localized outbreaks were also reported during the month from 
Arkansas, Virginia, and West Virginia. During June areas of serious dam- 
age were reported from the Fast Central States westward to Nebraska and 
southward to Kentucky and Tennessee, Arkansas, and Mississippi. This in- 
sect also appeared in destructive numbers in northern Utah. Several local 
outbreaks occurred in eastern North Carolina. Throughout the South At- 
lantic and 3a. st Central States the first generation was very highly para- 
sitized and little trouble was experienced with the second brood. Dur- 
ing July the insect appeared throughout the greater part of Michigan, 
although it occasioned no serious damage. 
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During June we began to receive reports of very unusual damage by sod 
webworms ( Crambus spp.) to sod lends, corn, and tobacco in the Sast Cen- 
tral States extending from Ohio to Iowa and southward to Kentucky. Be- 
tween June 2 and June 10 a heavy flight of the moths of Crambus trisectus 
Walk, was observed in western Illinois. A somewhat heavy flight of Crambus 
spp. was observed at Lexington, Ky. , during late June. Heavy flights 
were also observed in Ohio between June 10 and 29, and again between Aug- 
ust 15 and *" - 22; the species in this case were C. trisectus Walk, and 
C. teterrellus Zinck. ■ The moths were so numerous that they covered the 
radiators, headlights, and windshields of automobiles, making driving dif- 
ficult. Al lost every golf course in the City of Columbus showed large 
"grown patches due to the feeding of the webworms. The damage continued 
well through July. Similar damage to golf courses, particularly putting 
greens, was reported from Indiana. In Kentucky it was estimated that about 
one-half of the lav.ns in the bluegrass section were ruined by the feeding 
of these insects during June, the carnage being particularly noticeable in 
the immediate vicinity ->2 electric lights to winch the moths were attracted 
and near which they laid eggs. Considerable damage to lawns was also re- 
ported fro* Iowa and Missouri. In* one 6C-acre cornfield in Tennessee 
30 acres were practically destroyed, there being from 3 to 5 larvae per 
hill. At Windsor, Conn., a tobacco plantation was very severely infested, 
this being the first record of damage to the tobacco crop that has been 
observed in that State. 
