Missouri 
Mississippi 
Alabama 
Mississippi 
GARTEN V7EB'.70EM ( lo-roste go sirailalig Cuen») 
L« Easeman (July 31): M r.y cotton growers are having serious 
trouble with the small ca.terpillar known as the garden webworm, 
which is attacking cotton,, This is the pests first real appear- 
ance in Missouri during the past lp years* 
£• W« Earned (Angust 13) % During the latter part of July and 
the first of August specii-jens of the garden webworm on cotton 
v;era received from Adams, Pearl River, Coahoma, Bolivar, and 
Ya z jo Counties* 0»e complaint in regard to this insect damaging 
peas was received from Coahoma County,, Another complaint in 
regard to damage by the garden webworm to alfalfa was received 
from Monroe County* 
A CCEN SILK BEETLE (S uper odes da visi Leng) 
J. Me Robinson (August 6) r The corn silk beetle continues to 
appear in cotton fields near newly cleared ground and near the 
edge of woods. This insect devours nearly all portions of the 
cotton plant o 
R„ '.7. Earned (August IS) : Insects identified as belonging to 
the .Tonus Laperodes were collected en cotton at Mendenhall 
(Simpson County), and Hazlehurst (Copiah County) during the 
latter part of July, Complaints in regard to injury to corn 
by these insects -ere also received from Copiah and Jefferson 
Counties. 
TOBACCO 
Florida 
II or i da 
Louisiana 
HGHKiKBMS (Protoparce. spp.) 
F. S# Chamberlin (July 6): The tobacco horn worm ,P rotorjarce 
sjexta Jch >5 is very abundant at the present time, A few of the 
northern i'orm„P» oui nouernacula ta Haw,, have been observed this 
season,, 
TOMATO 9KHKSXT (D icyuhus m inimus Uhler) 
F„ S. Chanberlin (August 5) : Late tobacco and suckers are 
rather heavily infer ted with the snekfly at the present 
time in Gadsden County, The main portion of the crop was 
harvested before damage resulted from this pest, 
SUC^HCnTE 
SUGAR CAKE BORER (Diatraea sac char al is Fab. ) 
\7t» E e Hinds (August 24); Sugarcane borer infestation in 
corn during the first two generations has been quite extensive, 
but apparently not equal to that of 1^5* -' lie iiiird generation 
of borers is now developing principally in cane, which is 
