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Alabama J. M. Robinson (August 1): The fall armyworm is beginning to show 
up in several places in the otate, particularly , in the Piedmont 
section, '.'.'e have not determined ho 1 * 7 extensive the infestation is. 
(August 15): The fall armyworm has been active in the Piedmont re- 
gion of the State, and they have grown considerably more abundant 
in the past ^eek. 
■ ississippi r, w, Earned (August ?2): The southern grassworm has been very abun- 
dant in -Mississippi during the past month, A large number of com- 
plaints accompanied by specimens have been received at this office. 
Both cotton and corn have in some cases been quite seriously injur- 
ed. Specimens collected on corn have been received from Sunflower, 
Warren, Sharkey, Tate, Washington, Marshall, Alcorn, a:^- Quitman 
Counties. Specimens collected on cotton have been received from 
Humphreys, Tallahatchie, Yazoo, Warren, Lauderdale, Shrrke'y, Bol- 
ivar, and 'Washington Counties, Specimens on sorghum ^ere collect 
on the property of the Delta Experiment Stati&Bia-t Stoneville in 
Washington County. 
Texas ' P« C. Bishopp (August 10): Some complaints have been received of 
these worms attacking Bermuda grass and other pasture grasses in 
this vicinity. The TO orms appear to have done very little daraa 
to cotton or other crops. 
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HESSIAN PLY (P hytophaga destructor Say) 
Illinois ~. p. Flint (August 18): On the whole, the Hessian fly infestation 
in Illinois is very much the same as in the Pall of 1925. There 
has been a slight increase in infestation in the eastern counties 
and a slight decrease in the southern Counties, while the infesta- 
tion in the central and west-central counties is approximately the 
same as last year. The average infestation for the State this year 
is 4.2G per cent, or in other words out of every 100 wheat stems in 
the State, 4 now- contain flaxseeds of the Hessian Fly, from which a 
brood of adult flies will begin emerging this fall. This is sho^n 
by the results of the annual wheat insect survey which is conduct 
each year during the first two weeks of August by the entomologists 
of the Natural History Survey. This year entomologists of the Fed- 
eral Bureau of Entomology have cooperated in this work. 
One of the outstanding conditions shown by the survey is that 
of the even distribution of fly over all sections covered. In sou- 
thern Illinois, "here the infestation is the lightest, a little less 
than one- third of the fields show infestation, but In ether sections 
of the State nearly all fields contained the fly in small to mc 
erate nuTibers. The percentage of fly killed ^oy parasites or other 
causes was fairly high in southern Illinois, and about normal in 
the other sections. 
