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Missouri. L. Hasemrn (April 26): A few moths of the greasy cut i (A. 
ypsil on) were observed, f rom April 20 to. .22. . Last night great swarms 
of the moths auueared on au'ol'e blossoms "at Columbia. 
Nebraska. M. H. Swenk (Auril 20): A report received from 7rontier County 
on April 15 stated that cutworms were taking the wheat in some snots. 
An abundance of puuae of tne army cutworm :' Choriz arroti s auxiliari s 
Grote), chiefly in old alfalfa, and cornfields, was reported - 
Nuckolls, Keyapaha, Furnas, Hayes, and, Gosper Counties from March 25 
to Auril 5. 
Kansas. H. R. Bryson (April 27): Cutworms were reported by E. G. Kelly 
on April 5 to be damaging alfalfa, sweetclover , and some wheat in 
Clay County, a.nd moving from grasslands to wheat and alfalfa in Ottawa 
County. On a 5C-vnile drive, 12 alfalfa fields and l 1 -'- wheat fields 
visited in Republic County showed a uopulation of from 1 to S cutworms 
-per plant. 
H. K. Walkden (March): Pupae of Scotogramma trifolii Rott., dug 
out of soil late in February at Manhattan, yielded adults on March 13. 
This snecies is ordinarily scarce in eastern Kansas, and the writer 
has nei'-er taken overwintering nupae previously. (Auril 19): ' Larvae 
of Peltia subg othica Haw. were .sufficiently abundant in Jackson County 
to caij.se some injury to alfalfa in local areas. 
Texas. K. P. Ewing (Aoril 13): Cutworms have done considerable damage in 
places in Calhoun County. The greatest damage noted thus far was the 
destruction of approximately yOO acres of cotton, out of a block of 
700 acres. The entire acreage was nlanted in' pedigreed seed cost: : 
$2 Per bushel. On this one farm the loss was about $750* ^ n roany 
small acreages, of 15 acres or less, this insect has destroyed the 
stand cf cotton. 
Utah. G. F. Knowlton (April 2): Cutworms are damaging ranee Plants on 
Promontory Ridge, from 15 to 25 per square' foot being found. They 
are also present in damaging numbers at Promontory pnd. at Promontory 
Point, in Box Slder County. Suxoa C Ohorizag r otis ) sp. avxiliaris 
grouo are damaging dry-farm wheat at East Promontory. (Determined 
by C . Heinrich. ) 
ARMYWOBM ( Cjrnhis u ninunc ta Haw. ) 
Missouri. L. Haseman (Auril 2b): The epidemic of arrcn/worms, reported in 
March from southwestern Missouri., began emerging as moth? in breedir 
cages about Auril 10, and between April 15 and 20 a few moths came 
to lights at Columbia. On April 22 swarms of moths appeared on fruit 
blooms at Mount Vernon, and on Au^il 25 swarms appeared on auple 
blossoms at Columbia. The orm seems to have been thrown Dut cf 
its normal cycle by last summer's drought, for we had an outbreak of 
worms in southern and central Missouri late last fall, and we have 
already a matured cron of them doing considerable damage in southern 
