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My especial need just nor is to know the formula for sprays, 
dusts, or cutworm poisoned bait which is at present "being re- 
commended, if there is any change over those in. the circular. 
One man intended yesterday to divide his area and test all three 
remedies. For this particular attack the poisoned bait would 
seem the best chance; but there is considerable fear of this on 
the part of some of the blueberry growers from the bird stand- 
point. In certain localities the crows are feeding in good 
shape on the cutworms. 
The particularly pernicious feature of the attack is that 
the cutworms are taking only the blossom buds (not yet open). 
The surrounding colored bracts of the bud cluster are not touch- 
ed. The young leaves have so far escaped for the most part. 
Of course, this type of feeding means that the larvae are con- 
centrating on what will ruin the crop quickest. 
Ther3 is 'something queer, too, about this daintiness of ap- 
petite. I can not think that the infestation could have ac- 
cumulated to its present status on such a basis. I assume 
that the early-instar larvae last season were feeding on some- 
thing other than blueberry. If I am right in calling this 
caterpillar Agrotis fennica , I assume that some member of the 
family Leguminosae would be the logical attraction for the 
moths at egg laying and for the young caterpillars. I can 
not at present think of any such plant in the blueberry barrens 
except "hop clover." 
The caterpillars in the field are nibbling at Maianthemum 
canadense and wild raspberry but neither sean to rank as a real 
attraction. 
As the larvae remain hidden during the day and as the injury 
to the blueberry is to be seen only on close examination, this 
was reported to us only a few days ago. 
The larvae are exhibiting the army habit; but the usual methods 
applied against the real arrayworm in grain fields can not be used 
here. A furrow can not be plowed in the barrens and the extent 
or direction of the movement can not be detected from the appear- 
ance of the vegetation except at close range. 
PECAN 
EUBOPEAi: WALKDT APHID ( Chromaphis juglandicola Kalt. ) 
California W. C. Barber (May 5): Serious damage to walnuts at Eakersfield. 
A WHITS GRUB ( Phvllophaga micans Knoch) 
Alabama J. M. Robinson (April 29): Just at present Phvllophaga micans 
Knoch is working on pecan foliage in the Mobile district. H. P. 
Loding of Mobile has just informed me that Dr. Van Allen of Bald- 
win County has sent in several specimens of Metachroma pal 1 idum 
Say defoliating pecans and persimmons and doing considerable 
damage. The dead and dying Satsuma trees are being attacked 
by the Elaphidion inerme . The adults were emerging from the 
trees April 25. 
