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Kansas R. C. Smith (April 28): The clover leaf weevil has been unusually 
abundant this year in alfalfa. Have found it in every alfalfa 
field examined lately. It is less confined to spots than usual, 
the occurrence being rather general over all the field. The larvae 
are about half grown now (April 28). There would have been damage 
had not the recent heavy rains so stimulated growth. A field on 
the College farm was beginning to show injury when the rains salved 
the problem. Some diseased larvae have been found, but relatively 
few are thus attached. 
ARMY CTBTCfCEM ( Chorisagrotis auxiliaris Grote) 
South Dakota H. C. Soverin (May lS) : Over some areas of Jerauld, Douglas, 
aurora, and Charles Mix Counties the destruction of small grain 
and alfalfa crops was practically total. alfalfa is being kept 
down by the feeding activities of the worm in some areas. Some 
worms are pupating at this date, but the greater number are not. 
Don C. Hote (May 3) : western army cutworm Duxoa arrest is ( Choi' i - 
^aarotis au::iliaris Grote) reported by county agent H. C-. :-i.very, 
April 2:, Union County, doing damage to alfalfa, and ^oy county 
agent H. C. Donaldson, April 9. Wallowa County, doing damage to 
wheat. These two outbreaks were verified 'by --v. Rockwood, who 
reports under date of May 3, that the worms were very thick in 
places in Hallowa County but that winter wheat had made such good 
growth that the worms would probably not injure it seriously. In 
La Grande the worms had badly trimmed one young alfalfa field be- 
fore the ranchers put out poisoned bran bait. 
Hi A APHID ( lllinoia pisi. Halt.) 
R. C. Smith (April 2 to 28) : The pea aphid was assuming outbreak 
proportions in early April in the eastern third of the State. The 
first report was from Sharon and anthony April 2. *.7e have had re- 
ports from Croat Bend, - _lina, and Topeka since. It occurs at Han- 
hat tan in every field out there is no p ere opt idle injury. The 
small spots started in many fields in southern Kansas. I observed 
on a survey trip completed April IS that the heavy rains occurring 
over about three weeks of April so stimulated the growth of alfal- 
fa and destroyed so many aphids that all danger of an outbreak dis- 
appeared. I observed a field at "Tichita There the aphids were 
abundant and injuring half of a 10-acre field on April 17, but 
after a hard rain on the 13th we could find only a few aphids; on 
April IQ there were not enough to conduct a control experiment, 
at this writing (April 23) the alfalfa is growing rapidly. The 
aphids are fairly plentiful, but no injury is apparent. A severe 
freeze about the middle of the month would have given us condition: 
of 1921 when over 100,000 acres were loot because of this insect. 
. ■• . r.cColloch (Hay 20): The pea aphid was responsible for con- 
siderable injury to alfalfa between april 20 and Hay 10. The 
