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Ncw Mexico J. R. Douglass (May 21); Complr.ints have been received from 
farmers throughout the Estancia Valley concerning the great 
number of cutworms present. No commercially important damage 
has been noted, as corn is just coming up and beans are being 
planted at the present time. Eighty thousand acres of cultivated 
land lay idiealast season on account of the drought. 
BLACK CUTWORM ( Agrotis ypsilon Rott. ) 
Mississippi R. W« Harned (May 13): Cutworms found damaging sweet peppers 
at Pascagoula, Miss., by R. P. Colmer on May 3, have been 
identified by S. E. Crumb of the Bureau of Entomology as the 
greasy cutworm, ( Agrotis vpsilon ). 
ARMY CUTWORM ( Chorizagrotis auxiliar is Grote) 
Kansas J. ¥. McColloch (May 20) : During the past month injury to wheat 
has been reported from Smith, Rice, and Ellis Counties; to 
alfalfa in Wabaunsee, Saline, and Dickinson Counties; and to 
gardens in Dickinson and Rooks Counties. 
Nebraska M. H. Swenk (April 25-May 25) : The army cutworm has been 
reported from Perkins, Sheridan and Knox Counties. In Sheridan 
County these cutworms infested alfalfa to such an extent that 
some fields were plowed up and planted to other crops. In 
Lincoln, during the warm nights of May 23 and 2U, there were 
literally thousands of the adults of Chorigagrotis au xiliaris 
flying daring the evenings. They were especially noticeable 
on flowers of peony and iris, and caused much annoyance by 
getting in between the windows and screens of houses. 
YELLOW-STRIPED ARMYW0RM ( Prodenia ornithogalli Guen.)? 
California E„ A. McGregor (May 18): During the first two weeks of May 
there has been a very conspicuous occurrence of the yellow- 
striped armyworm, Prodenia pracfica Grote. At first the cater- 
pillars confined their attacks to certain common native weeds, 
and at the height of occurrence in the open fields there was 
nearly one larva per square foot of ground. As native plants 
dried up following the end of the rainy season, the armyworms 
began to migrate. It was of much interest to note that the great 
bulk of the individuals pursued a common direction, namely, 
from the southeast to the northwest. This seems remarkable for 
an immature stage. 
One young orange grove --'hich ley to the northwest of a large 
pasture soon became rather badly defoliated by the ^'ork of 
the migrating worms. The owner combatted the pest by placing 
arsenic-treated oranges at the base of each young tree. After 
2^ hours there was an aver cage of about 30 dead armyworms near the 
foot of each tree. The treatment seemed to give protection until 
the worst of the migration was over. 
The migration extended over a rather large extent of the 
country. 
