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Nebraska 
Kansas 
M. H. Swenk (June 15- July 10),: The chinch bug has been by far the 
most important insect pest in the State during the last three weeks. 
The area seriously infested includes the 10 counties touching the 
southern border of the State, from Richardson to Furnas Counties, 
inclusive, and eastwardly extends north into Nemaha, Johnson, south- 
western Otoe, southeastern Lancaster, and northern Saline Counties, 
while westwardly it is practically confined to the southern tier of 
counties, except that the Furnas County infestation extends well up 
into Gosper County. The bugs began leaving the wheat in the south- 
ern tier of counties during the last week in June, chiefly from 
June 25 to 28, though the migration did not start in some fields 
until the first week in July. During the last four or five days 
there have been many complaints of heavy losses of com because of 
invading chinch bugs. The weather has been very dry in Nuckolls, 
Webster, Franklin, Harlan, and Furnas Counties, and these counties 
are suffering the heaviest injuries, especially the central county 
of the block, Franklin, where the bugs seem to be especially numer- 
ous. Eastwardly Pawnee County continues to show the heaviest in- 
festation, as stated in my report of June 20. 
J. W. McColloch (July 19): The chinch bug has been especially bad 
this year and reports coming to this office at the present time 
indicate that some farmers have lost as much as 100 acres of corn 
and sorghums. It is interesting to note that the heaviest corres- 
pondence has been from three north-central counties. (July 20): 
This insect has been worse than at any time sine 3 1913. In some 
areas whole fields of corn and sorghums have been destroyed. 
CORN EARTORM ( Eel io this obsoleta Fab. ) 
South Carolina Bureau of Entomology Monthly Letter, No. 122 (June): W. A. Thomas 
of Chadbourn, N. C. , investigated an outbreak of the corn earworm 
on tomatoes in South Carolina and reported that this insect has 
caused considerable injury to the tomato fruits. 
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Florida 
Texas 
Maine 
C. I. Snapp (June 2): The corn earworm has been unusually abund- 
ant in middle Georgia this year, doing much damage to young corn. 
Severe injury has been reported from at least six counties. 
F. S. Ghamberlin (July 11): Corn earworm larvae of all sizes are 
present at this time. The ears in cornfields of this region were 
about 85 ver cent infested. 
F. C. Eishopp, through J. L. Webb (June): During June the corn 
earrorm was quite abundant in the vicinity of Dallas. Sweet corn 
in gardens ms almost completely ruined and tomatoes were attacked 
to a c isiderable extent. 
STALX BORER ( Papaipena nitela Guen. ) 
E. M. Patch (July 22): A report from North Alfred states: "The 
entire planting is infested with them." 
