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the country. We have a very large "banana plantation here and the 
hoppers do greet harm to the plant-. The custom here is to drive the 
hopners into ditches and turn flame throwers onto the massed hoppers. 
(Determined as Scnistocerca paranensis Burm. from notes in files of 
the Insect Pest Survey) 
MORMON CRICICET (Ar abrus simplex Eald. ) 
Wyoming. C. L. Corkins (May 25): Mormon crickets are appearing in great 
numbers. In Sheridan County there are 20,000 acres of hatching "beds, 
Johnson County ahout U,000, Converse County 15,000, Crook County 5*000, 
and there are milder infestations in Washakie , Park, Lincoln, Hot 
Springs, and Teton Counties. 
CUTWORMS (Noctuidae) 
Vermont. H. L. Bailey (May 25): Cutworms , Agrotis unicolor Walk., were 
unusually abundant and were damaging gardens near Burlington on May 20. 
Virginia. K. G. Walker (May 25): Cutworms have "been reported as "being very 
abundant , and injurious in some cornfields near Norfolk. 
Ohio. T. H. Parks (May 25): Less than the usual number of reports have 
beer received this month. Climbing cutworms were reported to be devour- 
ing the buds and foliage of apples and grapes in northeastern counties 
in May. 
B. J. Landis (May l): Cutworms are doing some damage to early 
cabbage at Columbus, 
Indiana. J. J. Davis (May 25): Cutworms were reported as damaging sweet- 
clover at Greenfield on May 21. A few other sections reported cutworms 
as abundant, but no records were received of croos being attacked. 
Michigan. R. Kutson (May 20): Various species of climbing cutworms are 
quite numerous around Hartford. 
Wisconsin. 3. L. Chambers (May 21): Early tomato and cabbage plants in the 
Milwaukee and Racine truck-farm areas were reported to be slightly damaged 
by cutworms. 
Iowa. C. J. Drake (May 23): Cutworms are unusually abundant in gardens and 
cornfields. Infestations seem to be quite general In the State. 
Tennessee. G. M. Bentley (May 22): Cutworms are occurring in unusual num- 
bers throughout the State. 
Nebraska. M. H. Swenk (May 20): Cutworms were reported from Antelope, Brown, 
Webster, and Nemaha Counties from May 5 to lS. Alfalfa and wheat were 
the chief croos affected. Numerous inquiries concerning the control of 
