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M« H 9 Swenk (May 15-June 15): White- grubs had resumed 
activities sufficiently to be the cause of complaints of injury 
to bluegrass lawns, privet, hedges, and strawberry plants 
by May 22 and 23, 
J* W» McColloch (June 8): A strawberry bed at Alma has been 
ruined by grubs, 
Carl J, Drake (June 4): White grubs, Brood A, are doing 
a considerable amount of damage to early-planted corn in eastern 
Iowa, Many fields were seriously injured or even entirely 
destroyed by this brood last year, 
WIREWORMS (Elateridae) 
A, I, Bourne (June 25): Wmreworms have been very abundant 
on a variety of crops, notably on corn and tobacco in the 
Connecticut Valley. They have been the cause 6f an unusual 
number of complaints from the tobacco growers, who have in 
many cases had to reset areas for the second time, and in some 
cases the insect has made setting for the third time necessary. 
Apparently this is associated with the cold and persistent 
wet weather encountered this season* From our personal ob- 
servation the lower fields and lower sections of other fields 
have been the worst infested. This, I believe, followed out 
the observations you have made personally on these insects. 
Weekly News Letter N. Y, St. Coll, Agr, June.4i. 
Onondaga County (W, E, Fields): Wireworms are busy in some 
corn and potato fields. 
G, H, Griswold (June 28): Wireworms are attacking gladioli 
at Frankfort. They bore through stalk below ground and eat 
up and down tender shoots. Species undetermined, 
C» A, Thomas (June 12): The larvae of Phe letes a^ronu s Say 
are now at their height and are doing considerable damage to 
cabbage and small beets in Philadelphia and Bucks Counties, 
Adults first appeared early in May, 
J, J, Davis (June 26): Wireworms were destructive to corn 
in low ground at Covington May 26, This field was in corn 
in 1925, in oats in 1926, in wheat in 1927, and in corn in 
1928. They also damaged corn at Salem June 20, 
W, P, Flint (June 20): Wireworms have caused more damage 
than has been the case for a number of years. Reports of 
severe injury to corn have come in from all parts of the State 
with the exception of the extreme southern and northeastern 
counties, Damage has been reported on both high and low ground 
and to corn on several different rotations. Many cases have 
