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Nebraska and M. H. Swenk (May 25-Jiine 25): Heavy flights of the moth of the 
Wyoming army cutworm continued through western Nebraska until the end of 
May, when they abruptly ceased. From eastern Wyoming, however, 
a report of great flights of these moths as late as June 8 was 
received . 
Kansas J. W. McColioch (June 21): The adults have been very abundant 
over the State during the last of May and the first two weeks of 
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BLACK-LINED CUTWORM (Aprotis fennica Tausch.) 
Maine E. M. Patch (June l) : Last-instar larvae. County agent at Hope 
reports, "They eat : one row- of peas and then move en to the next." 
(June 9): County agent at Portland writes', "This caterpillar 
has been raising havoc with the Cape farmers, eating beets, cauli- 
flower, cabbage, and peas. They strip an acre of cabbage in one 
night." 
New York F. B. Morris (May. 21): Specimens were received from Oswego. They 
destroyed a whole field of lettuce and part of a bed of spinach. 
Michigan R. K. Pettit (May" 26): The county agent at Ewen writes as follows- 
"I found the worms present over an area 10 or 12 miles long and 5 
ob 6 miles wide. Wherever the second-growth timber had not oeen 
killed by the fire, we found very few woncs, but where the fire 
had killed nearly all vegetative growth and last year only fire- 
weed was growing, the worms were very thick." He believes there 
is some' relation between t ireweed and these cutworms. He sayr. 
further: "The worms have crawled off the cut-over la.nd onto the 
first row of farms next to the cut-over land. When they first 
hit a farm they eat nearly everything in sight but are especially 
fond of clover, strawberry plants, dandelions, and garden crops. 
Plants which produce a blade, rather than a true leaf, do not seem 
to be much attacked." 
"One farmer tried spraying his strawberry plants with the same 
arsenical material he used on his potato vines' last year. He re- 
ceived about 95 per cent protection." 
WItffiWOHMS (Elate ridae) 
Massachusetts A. I- Bourne (June 22): I have received one report fro r J a fruit 
grower of northern Wo rcester County who is cooxTerating with the 
Station on some of our projects, that he has obser/ed click beetles 
on young trees, apparently gouging out the buds. While this has 
not yet assumed alarming proportions, in a few cases small trees 
were very seriously injured. 
Cndiana J.J. Davis (June 24): Injury to corn in bottom lands was report- 
ed May 21 at Orestes. 
