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Indiana, as a serious pest of corn, Today we received cur first re- 
ports of injury by the beetles, since early reports this spring, the 
report coming from Shelbyvillo y/here the beetles vere damaging 
garden beans, eating into the green pods. 
H. K. Riley (August 20) : The southern corn roo.t norm was reported 
as seriously damaging corn at Chalmers August 9« 
W. P. Flint (July 19): Many specimens of this insect are being sent 
in from southern and central Illinois. Damage by these larvae is 
not confined t-: the bottom lands but is rather general in fields 
where a heavy growth of clover or seed clover occurred during the 
early spring and -,hich -.vere plowed late. As is usually the case, 
it is reported causing serious damage to the bottom lands along the 
rivers which were overflowed during the early spring. 
C J. Drake (August 2): The southern corn root worm is extremely 
abundant in southeastern Iowa. On one form inLee County S00 acres 
of corn were badly infested by the beetle. A number of other reports 
were received from southeastern Iowa. The adult beetles of the 
first generation are emerging very rapidly at the present time. 
K. C. Sullivan (July 23): The southern corn root ~orm is causing 
unusual damage to the corn, especially the late corn which has been 
planted in the overflow areas along the Missouri and Mississippi 
Rivers. In these places the injury is 'widespread and the loss will 
be tremendous. 
COSH ROOT 'JCR:: ( Diabrotic a long! cor r.is Say) 
17. ~± Tlint (August IS): Several reports of serious damage by the 
northern corn root worm have come in from the central Illinois 
counties. In all cooes the injury occurred -here corn had fol- 
lowed corn. 
M. H. Srenk (July 25-August 25): Corn root -verms have been the out- 
standing pest to the corn crop of Nebraska during the past month. 
Complaints of much falling corn due to the destruction of the root 
system by the western corn root \70rm began to be received by the end 
of July, and have kept coming in unabated to the present date. Al- 
though this trouble is general over eastern Nebraska, it is worst 
in the northeastern corner, from lino;:, .Antelope, Madison, and Dodge 
Counties east and north to the Missouri River. In many localities 
in this area hundreds of acres of corn hove been seriously injured 
and following heavy rains the corn has largely gone down in many 
fields. Expectations of reduced yields because of this trouble are 
freely expressed by farmers in this region; one correspondent states 
that he would not get more than 10 bushels to the acre in a corn- 
field that yielded ^0 bushels to the acre last year. In western, 
especially in southwestern Nebraska, similar trouble, due to the 
Colorado corn root worm, Diabroti ca vir oil' era Lee. a pest not here- 
