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Oklahoma 
Arkansas 
Mississippi 
Colorado 
Utah 
Oregon 
C. S. Sanborn (May 23): The variegated cutworm is doing ser- 
ious damage to alfalfa at Alva., Oklahoma City, Pauls Valley, 
Muskogee, Tulsa, and Stillwater. 
D. Isely (Juno 23): There has been an outbreak of unusual 
severity of the variegated cutworm, during the .latter part of 
May and the early part of June, This outbreak occurred along 
the Mississippi and Arkansas Fivers, from the northwestern 
corner of the State to the east central part. Most of the 
infestations were centered around alfalfa fields from which 
the worms moved to destroy adjoining crops of corn -and cotton. 
State Plant Board, Press Release (June 1): In one case in 
Washington County 160 acres of spring alfalfa was destroyed 
by the variegated cutworm. 
C. P. Gillette (June S3): The red- backed cutworm ( Euxoa 
ochro-.'.rter Gven. ) is very abundant in southwestern Colorado. 
Ckoriza-r otis sp. and the pale western cutworm ( Porosagrotis 
orthoge nic Morr. ) are very abundant in eastern and southern 
Colorado. 
G. P. Knowlton (June 6): Cutworms are seriously damaging 
many fields of sugar beets in the area west of Springville. 
Twenty acres in one field had to be replanted because of this 
damage, and large areas in other fields are bare at the present 
time. Injury to beets in the Sevier Valley has been reported. 
Jour acres of beets were destroyed west of Provo. (June 10): 
Cutworms have been causing damage to sugar beets in several 
fields in Boxelder, Cache, and Utah Counties. 
L. P. Rockwood (June 1): Moths of A. yp silon Rott. are some- 
what more numerous thai'; in 1930 in bait traps on land over- 
flowed until early May. No damage is being done. 
West Virginia 
Virginia 
. AH.OT0RM (Cirphis unipurcta Haw.) 
L. M. Peairs (June 23): The armyworm is destructive to corn 
and garden crops in various places. 
H. G. Walker and G. E. Gould (June 24): ^e armyworm outbreak 
in eastern Virginia- reached maximum proportions in late May 
and caused severe damage to some fields of oats, rye, wheat, 
and corn in five counties. Two reports were received of 
damage Vcout June 3 to fields of rye and com. Counts made 
in late May showed that over 88 per cer t of the caterpillars 
were parasitized by tachinid flies. Moths from the May out- 
break began to appear about June 15. 
C. R. Willey (June 5): Specimens of annyworme "."ere received 
f rora Ruarlk, Middlesex County, on June 3, with the. following 
