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Utah. G. F. Knowlton (July 22): Larvae have damaged early sweet corn now on the 
market at Logan, Willard, and Salt Lake, in north-central Utah. 
Nevada. G. G, Schweis (July 25): Several reports that corn ear worms are pres- 
ent in the usual numbers. 
FALL ARMYWORM ( Lanhy^raa fru^iperda S. & A. ) 
Mississippi. C. Lylo (July 25): Several patches of late corn badly damaged in 
southern Mississippi. Complaints of severe damage to corn in the Delta 
section. 
Arkansas. D. Isely (July 20): A snail local outbreak on corn observed in 
Washington County, northwestern Arkansas, on July 19. 
EUROPEAN CORN BORER ( Pyrausta nubilalis Hbn. ) 
Connecticut. N. Turner (July 20): Very serious' damage to early sweet corn in 
the Kousatonic Volley. Infestation in other areas is .-bout as usual. 
M st of the insects in the pupal stage. In a commercial flower garden 
daisies and artenisias were very badly damaged. 
New York. N. Y. State Coll. Agr. News Letter (July): In Rockland and Ulster 
Counties fields in tassel were observed on July 5 and 6, in which SO to 
100 percent of the stalks were infested by f irst-genoraticn larvae, most 
of which were half-grown or Larger. Fields of younger corn were lightly 
or moderately infested. On Long Island a potato field near Hast Meadows 
was examined on July 9» Examination of 100 newly dug vines disclosed 222 
larvae in all stages of development and S pupae in 10 vines, together 
with traces of feeding. (July 25): Infestation of corn borer is 100 
percent in early planted sweet corn in the southern part of Saratoga 
County. The first planting, now being harvested, shows 100-percent in- 
festation; the second, a large amount of tassel lopping; and the third 
planting shows infestation, 
L. A. Carruth (July 29): A survey of first brood of the 2-generation 
strain in sweet corn shows most severe infestations in Albany County, 
whore damage to stalks and ears was so severe that no attempts wore made 
to harvest some fields. Surveys in the county indicate approximately 
lO-percent pupation, although an empty pupal ca^e has occasionally been 
found. Egg masses found in two fields on low land west of Albany on 
July 28. 
Now Jersey. T. L. Guyton (July lU): Larvae are very numerous in sweet corn. 
The stalk infestation is approximately 100 percent at Bound 3rook, north- 
central New Jersey. 
Indiana. J. J. D a vis (July 26): This port is definitely on the increase. A 
noticeably large percentage is pupating, indicating the development of the 
2-brooded form, especially .as the borer movos southward. 
Wisconsin. B. L. Chambers (July 23): First infestation found on July IS on sweet 
corn in Kenosha County, southeastern Wisconsin, 
