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W. P. Flint (June 16): The,, common stalk borer is much more des- 
tructive than usual a^nd a number of fields on bottom lands have 
been s-eve rely injured inscm-e cases, necessitating the replanting 
of the entire field. This is unusual as the insect usually con- 
fines its attack to field margins or low points in the field where 
a heavy weed growth has oeen permitted the previous season. 
L. Haseman (jjune 25.) :•' This insect is more abundant this year than 
it has been in a great many years and in seme cornfields planted on 
-newly plowed bottom pasture or waste land they have completely des- 
troyed the first planting. From various sections of the State re- 
ports have been received showing damage to corn and vegetable crops, 
M. H. Swenk (May 25-June 25): ■ Complaints of .injury by the stalk 
borer continued through June and up~to the date of this report, 
Shme cornfields apparently have been quite seriously damaged. The 
injury has been confined to the eastern one-third of the State. 
AW/'Y^t) W ( Car phis unipuncta H aw . ) 
H. C. Kuckett (June 13): Found feeding in noticeable numbers in 
a hay field at Calverton. 
E. P. Felt (June 26): Armyworms -are reported as very abundant in 
grass and grain fields in Orient, by L. H. Latham. 
H, A. Gossard (June 23): . Armyworm specimens were received June 17 
from Akron, where they were doing damage to corn. 
J.J. Davis (June 24): ■ Abundant June 12 at Marion. 
W. P. Flint (June 18): Only a few scattered cases of injury by 
first-generation larvae have .been reported. 
. 'SOD V/EBi'.'ORMS ( Crambus sp.) 
Herbert Osborn (May 28): I have had reports of work ir. cornfields 
planted on sod ground which is very evidently due to one of the sod 
we.bworms,- but specimens have not been received for identification. 
H. A. Gossard (June 23): Sod webworms were received from Irwin, 
Celina, and Columbiana, in all cases attacking corn. One of my 
assistants, in.reporting an investigation of webworm damage in 
northwestern Ohio, says that this damage did rot occur in fields 
that had teen in grass the preceding yesar. One field consisting 
of 30 acres now in corn was in corn last year. The field was 
kept very clean of plant and weedy growth of every kind last year 
and there was no weedy growth during the fall after the corn crop 
was removed, yet out of 100 consecutive hills examined in this 
field 94 showed injury by webworms. The damage to the field 
was estimated at about 70 per cent. This field ordinarily 
passes through a 4-year rotation, consisting of corn, oats, wheat, 
and clover, but this year corn followed corn. Another 30-acre 
field adjoining this was in clover last year and this year was 
