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rdiana J. J. Davis (May 25): In addition to the numerous reports of 
' white grubs turned up "by the plow we have received a report on 
Hay 16 from Eushville that grubs were- destroying wheat . Speci- 
mens accompanied the report . 
Nebraska M. H. Swenk (April): Whits grubs have been complained of as des- 
troying lawns in all the southeastern counties of the State, but 
especially from the t^o southern tiers of counties lying between 
the 97th and 99th meridians, where this sort of injury has been 
especially heavy. . . 
CUTWORMS ( No etui da e ) 
Connecticut W. E. Britton (May 22): Cutworms are seemingly more abundant this 
year on vegetable plants in Litchfield. Hartford, Tolland, and 
Middlesex Counties. 
Michigan R. E. Fettit (May "14): • I am getting word of an outbreak of climb- 
ing cutworms, both in the northern part of the fruit belt in the 
Lower Peninsula and way up at Ewen in the Upper Peninsula, and these 
reports tell us that the cutworms are in unheard-of numbers. (May 
21): We have received some larvae from the Upper Peninsula and, 
while they all died overnight, I was able to determine them as 
IToctua fennica Tausch. A letter received from the county agent at 
Ewen also tells me that the economic loss has not been heavy because 
there is not so much in the way of agriculture going on up there, 
but the damage done to wild plants has shown possibilities that have 
alarmed the whole county. Another species of cutworms which is des- 
troying two- thirds of the buds of some trees in Montcalm County near 
Stanton, is still undetermined. Probably c- nigrum L. Mr. Centner, 
who has just returned from Eenzie County (Beulah), tells me that the 
species which is making a lot of trouble up there is something still 
different. 
Ohio C-. A. Runner (May 150>: Climbing cutworms have caused some damage 
to buds of apple in Ottawa, Erie, and Lorain Counties. Adults 
bred from larvae found feeding on buds of apple have been determined 
by S. E. Crumb of the Bureau of Entomology as Rynchagrotis cupida 
C-rote. 
H. A. Gossard (May 21 ): I saw pastures of 60 acres in Licking 
County with hardly a spear of green grass left in them and 10-acre 
patches of destroyed grass were common through two or three town- 
ships. I was told that there were several much larger pastures 
in the same condition. In one pasture we found the worms had ad- 
vanced in a solid front about 25 feet per day during a period of 
four days, eating everything before them. Counts of the number 
of worms per square foot on this advancing front were made from 
3 square feet located at different points along the line and the 
average was 172 cutworms per square foot. In a few cases the 
caterpillai-s were entering fields of wheat and oats, destroying 
these as they went. 
