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CEREAL AND FORAGE-CROP INSECTS 
WHEA T 
WHEAT STRAW WORM ( Harmolita grandis Riley) 
Kansas J. W. McColloch (May 29): Recent surveys in the State indi- 
cate that we are to have a rather heavy outbreak of the w heat 
straw worm. This insect has been found abundant in eastern 
Kansas, and also throughout the major wheat belt of the State 
which takes in the central portion. The adults of the second 
brood are now emerging in the field and in some cases as many 
as 4 females were found depositing in a singte wheat stem. 
(June 20): A general outbreak of this insect has developed 
over most of western Kansas. Fanners are reporting as' high 
as 50 per cent of the stems infested. 
CORN 
■ FALL ARMYWORM ( Laphygma frugiperda S . & A. ) 
Georgia 0. I. Snapp (June 25): A very heavy infestation has just 
started in one cornfield in the eastern part of Peach County 
and the northern part of Houston County. Considerable dam- 
age has been done to late-planted corn, 100 per cent of the 
plants being ruined in one field where corn followed wheat 
that was turned under after hail and wind damage. 
Alabama J. M. Robinson (June 25): The fall armyworm is particular- 
ly destructive on the young corn in the lowlands. I visited 
1,000 acres of corn a week ago where there were from 1 to 50 
larvae on each stalk. This land had been submerged all of 
the month of March,, except 5 days, to a depth of from 10 to 
50 feet of water. The prison farmers were dusting the corn 
to save it. The same insect had caused considerable damage 
in Baldwin and Mobile Counties a. month ago. Many thousand 
acres are damaged in the river lowlands and 800 on the prison 
farm. Reports have been received from Montgomery County, 
Elmore, Greensboro, Atmore, Baker Hills, and Bay 
Minette. 
Mississippi State Plant Board of Mississippi (June 24): An outbreak of 
southern grassworms on corn in Oktibbeha County has just boen 
reported by County Agent R. M. Lancaster. The worms are work- 
ing rapidly and many fields of corn will be ruined within a 
short time unless poison is applied. 
R. W. Harned (June 19): On June 5, Inspector H. Gladney, 
Ocean Springs, wrote as follows: "The southern grassworms 
were very abundant here about two weeks ago. I know of seven 
