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GEUEHAL FEEDERS 
Connecticut 
Massachusetts 
Hew York 
New Jersey 
Pennsylvania 
CUTWORMS (IToctuidae) 
M. P. Zappe (June 20): Cutworms were causing severe injury 
to young apple trees, budded last year, at Durham Center. 
Early in the spring they ate out the buds and later fed on 
new leaves. They were very abundant on a variety of plants 
in UewEaven County. 
A. I. Bourne (June 26): In late May and early June there 
was reported to us a rather severe infestation of cutworms 
attaching strawberry beds in the Cape section in Barnstable 
County. Prof. Whitcomb reports that it was probably the 
darksided cutworm, ' Suxoa messoria Earr. ) although this has 
not been definitely determined. He reported that practically 
all of the acreage of strawberries in the region around 
Ealmouth showed infestation and in the worst infested fields 
from one-fourth to one-half the leaf area of the plant had 
already been eaten by late May. It was not at all difficult 
to find from 4 to 1Q cutworms hidden under the mulch around 
one plant. He reports a serious outbreak of climbing cut- 
worms in apple orchards in Essex County where the spotted 
cutworm, Agrotis ■'•-/"■nigrum , was serious^ damaging buds and 
foliage of apple trees about the middle of May. 
N. Y. State Coll. of Agr., Weekly Hews Letter (June): Cut- 
worms wore quite generally severe over western New York, par- 
ticularly to tomatoes, and in one planting in Chautauqua 
County 68 per cent of the plants were cut off in three days. 
(Abstract, J.A.H. ). . 
H. J. State Coll. of Agr., Weekly News Letter (June 2): 
Cutworms are abundant and doing considerable damage to newly 
sot tomato plants in Burlington County. 
J. N. Knull (June 11): Cutworms have been very abundant 
in small gardens throughout the Mont Alto Stato Eorest. 
C. A. Thomas (June 19): . Cutworms were abundant and de- 
structive during May and /June in southern Pennsylvania, eat- 
ing off cabbage, tomato, bean, and numerous other small plants. 
Maryland 
E. IT. Cory (June 22): 
Arundel County. 
Cutworms are very abundant in Anne 
Virginia 
W. S. Abbott (May 25): One report of very heavy damage to 
strawberry plants ^j cutworms has been received from Silver 
Spring. 
G. E. Gould (June 24): Cutworms of several different species 
have been reported causing damage to different crops in Norfolk. 
