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Holt County was discovered early in June; the first case of 
this sort since 1922, It has destroyed some of the oats 
where it Was working, but the trouble was neither extensive 
or severe* 
'.7HEAT-SHEATK GALL J0INTW0HE ( Harmolita va^inicola Doane) 
Ohio T. H« Barks (June 22): Inspections made last week in Picka- 
way County showed numerous straws elbowed near the joint 
and stunted by the wheat sheath worm. This has been a pest 
in other years in eastern Ohio but I have never seen economic 
damage this far west in the State, Wheat was quite late in 
getting started this spring and many fields were sowed to 
oats. More information will be procured by the annual wheat 
insect survey, 
A KIRID ( Thyrillus pacificus Uhl.) 
Washington R, L. Webster (June 2): County extension agents in Adams 
and Franklin counties report injury to wheat, the insects 
moving to that crop from wild trasses. 
CORN 
STALK BORER ( Papaipe:ra nebris nitela Guen. ) 
Indiana J» J» Davis (June 2C ) : The stalk borer was reported as 
damaging corn at Stewartsville, May 30; Delphi, June 17; 
Hope, June 18; and Franklin, June 22, Tomatoes and sweet 
• corn -"ere damaged at LaFayette early in June, The same borer 
attacked hlaekbarr,y shoots at Greenfield, June 16. Tomatoes 
were seriously da. at Brownstown, June £3. 
Iowa Carl J, Drake (June 4): The stalk borer is very abundant 
in the State and at the present time is in the fourth and 
fifth instars. Spec J i have been taken during the past 
year in every county in the State except '. principal 
injury is done to oats, timothy, wheat, corn, and ~arden 
plant: 
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Nebraska . , , ( ■ 15- June 15): The first report of attack 
on corn by the r for the season was received on 
June 15. 
Kansas J. Colloch (June 20): The borer has caused some 
loss to con; • have been rec< i- 
follows: Olsbi. , ; on, June 1; Tescott, June 
8; Lincoln, June U; Burlin , U; . . , June 
and Manhattan, June lb. 
EUROPEAN CORN BORE (_ t; t r.ubilalis Hbn. ) 
' Ohio T, II, Parks (June 25): Several hundred corn borer larvae 
