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South Dakota 
Iowa 
Nebraska 
A. L. Ford and H. C. Severin (May 20): Wireworms are 
moderately abundant in Brown County, causing damage to 
snring wheat. One man reports 50 per cent of stand gone. 
H. e. Jaquos (May 22): Wireworms are reported as moderately 
abundant on corn in Clayton, Euchanan, Calhoun, Boone, 
Pottawattamie and Decatur Counties; and as very abundant in 
Floyd, Fayette, Union, Davis, Van 3uren, Jefferson, Henry, 
and Louisa Counties. 
M. H. Swenk (May 19): Wireworms (Melanotus sp.) are 
moderately abundant in eastern Nebraska. 
Oklahoma 
C. F. Stiles (May 5): 
western Okl ahoma . 
Wireworms are moderately abur.drnt in 
Mississippi 
Montana 
Idaho 
Canada 
Maryland 
K. L. Cockerham (Mr.y 9): We have already had one adult 
Heterodere s laurentii Guer. emerge in the laboratory and have 
been collecting -pupae from the field since the 17th of April. 
On May 2 and 3 field digging indicated that pupation \ 
about 25 per cent corn-Dieted at that time. I think that by 
the 20th adults will be fairly plentiful and at the same 
time we will be able to find full-grown larvae and pupae and 
v:e should have some egffs also. 
H. Gladney (May 15): Wireworms are moderately abundant 
at Ocean Springs. 
W. B. Mr-bee (May 20): Wireworms are moderately abundant 
on wheat in Gallatin County. 
Claude Wake land (May 22) : The usual large number of 
complaints are being received about wireworms that arc always 
received at this time of year from the irrigated districts 
of southern Idaho, and many inquiries for methods of control. 
G. M. Stirrett (May 17): There are four or five acres of 
land at Chatham, Ontario, infested with wireworms ( Limonius sp. 
and Melanotus sp,) at the rate of 4.5 larvae to the square 
foot, this average being based on a small number of square- 
foot counts. This would figure out at 209,088 larvae per 
^cre. The counts vere made to a depth of three inches. They 
apprrently did considerable damage last year in the same 
ground, but it is very difficult to get any previous history 
regarding the tract. 
.72 GRUBS ( Phyllophsga spp.) 
W. M. Davidson (Hay 10): Specimens of Phyllorh _ 
h irticula Knoch and P. inverse Horn '••ere collect d from tops 
of linden and ash trees on the grounds of a golf course at 
Silver Spring. These beetles, working about sunset, have 
defoliated the tops of ■' r 1 trees the p si I days. 
