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put to corn. This field has an almost perfect stand of corn that 
is growing very nicely. Only occasionally can a stalk be found 
showing injury. Another field was last year in barley, with which 
sweet clover had been sowed. This field was plowed up in April. 
The loss from sod webworm injury is at least 50 per cent and under 
date of June 19 these crambid larvae were feeding on the replant, 
which was just coming up. A considerable number of fields, some 
of them 50 acres or more, within a radius of 20 or 30 miles of 
Toledo, have been completely destroyed by sod web.vorrs and must 
either be replanted to corn or to other crops. 
T. H. Parks (June 17): .Specimens with reports of severe damage 
have been coming in from many sections of the State. 
BILLBUGS ( Calendra spp.) 
Mississippi R. W. Harned (June 22): On June 13 a farmer at Oak Ridge, barren 
County, sent several specimens of Calendra with the statement that 
they had caused a lot of trouble in corn in the northeastern part 
of that county. 
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L. Haseman (June 25): Two species of billbugs , Cal endra callosa 
Oliv. and .C. destructor Chttn., have been reported as seriously 
damaging bottom corn from a number of widely separated sections 
of the State. It is appearing mostly on corn where wild grasses 
and sedges were abundant last year. Identified by Satterthwait . 
MAIZE BILLBUG ( Calendra maid is Chttn.) 
J. W. McColloch (June 21): At Hunnewell a 60-acre field of corn 
was destroyed. A report from McPherson County says the beetles 
have destroyed several acres of corn. A field at Ogden has been 
replanted three times owing to this beetle. A general infesta- 
tion in a number of fields at Junction City has necessitated much 
replant ing. 
TWELVESSBOTTED CUCUMBER BEETLE ( Diabrotica l2- -punctata Fab.) 
XI. E. Kinds (May 28): The 12-spotted cucumber beetle has been 
exceedingly abundant following a very mild winter and considerable 
damage has been done to stands of corn and other crops attacked 
by them. 
BANDED FLEA-BEETLE ( Systena taeniata Say) 
T. H. Parks (June 17); Isolated but serious injury is being done 
by these adults to growing corn over a large part of the State. 
Most complaints come from northwestern counties. The county 
agent of Shelby County writes, "There is a 20-acre field of corn 
that is so badly infested that the corn tfill be destroyed within 
a few days ." 
