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Texas. R, K. Fletcher (July 22) : Reported as seriously injuring grain sorghum 
in .Ellis and Throckmorton Counties,- in north-central Texas, and injuring 
corn in Victoria County, southeastern coast of Texas. 
CORN LEAF APHID ( Aphis naidis Fitch) 
Florida. J. R. Watson (July 22); A heavy infestation occurred on the station 
grounds at Gainesville. 
Illinois. A. F. Satterthwait (July 26): The corn leaf aphid is occurring in 
outbreak numbers in a large field of corn near Heynoldsville, Union 
County,, southern Illinois, destroying tassels, foliage, and stalks to an 
extent indicating a pro cable loss of 33 to Uo percent of the crop. • 
Iowa. C. J. Drake (July 20): Infestations of the corn leaf aphid have been 
observed in the vicinity of Des Moines. 
North Dakota. J. A. Munro (July 27): Inf .station is generally distributed 
throughout a 225-acre field of corn near Gardner, Cass County. Practically 
all plants are heavily infested, natural control agencies, including the 
larvae cf syrphid flies and ladybird beetles, were active. 
Nebraska. M. H. Swenk (Jtily 23): Heavily infested cornstalks received fron 
Buffalo County, south-central Nebraska, on July 19. 
TERMITES (Isoptera) 
Ohio. T. II. Parks (July 25): Specimens of green cornstalks received fron Adams 
County, in southern Ohio, on July 5» showed termite injury. Some insects 
wore present in the hollowed-out stalks. This is our first experience 
with termites in greon corn. 
ALFALFA 
ALFALFA WEEVIL ( Hypora postica Gyll. ) 
Nebraska, Colorado, and Wyoming. J. C. Hamlin (July 2): As a result of a survey 
this insect was found in the following localities not previously known to 
be infested: Harris burg, Banner County; Iler.iingford, Box Butte County; and 
Kinball, Kimball County; all in western Nebraska; Hereford, ^7eld County, 
in northeastern Colorado; Thormopolis, Hot Springs County; Borland, 
Washakie County; and Rairden, Big Horn County; all in north-central 
Wyoming; Pino Bluffs, Laramie County, in southeastern Wyoming. Also found 
in Mars land, Dawes County, Nebr. , whore it has been recorded previously. 
(Det. by L. L. Buchanan and A. G. Boving. ) ■- — -« 
Nevada. G. G. Schweis (July 25): An outbreak of alfalfa weevil in Douglas 
County, southwestern Nevada, and much damage done to the first-cutting 
alfalfa. 
Oregon. R. W. 3unn (July 6): An extension of the infestation in southwestern 
Oregon dis covered this year, larvae being found in small numbers in the 
