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Kansas 
Indiana 
Illinois 
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Mississippi 
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E. L. Chambers (June 21): The stalk borer is moderately 
abundant, destroying patches of corn along the fence rows and 
ditches in the southern counties. It seems to be more abund- 
ant than last year . 
J. H. McColloch (June 20): The stalk borer is apparently 
going to be a pest of considerable importance again this year. 
SOD YffiBWOBMS ( Crambus spp . ) 
J. J. Davis (June 27): Sod webworms were reported damaging 
corn early in June at Manila, Columbus, and Osgood. 
W. P. Flint (June 19): Sod webworms have been general over 
the northern half of the State. D a mage was not quite so severe 
as last year in most cases reported. 
C. J. Drake (June): Sod webworms have done a considerable 
amount of injury to corn in the southern half of the State. 
.Then billbugs are present in the same fields, growers fre- 
quently attribute the work entirely to the billbugs and over- 
look the large populations of sod webworms. 
GARDEN TOS&TOfiM ( Loxostege similalis Guen.) 
J. W. McColloch (June 11): Serious injury to corn by the 
garden webworm is reported from a few fields of corn in the 
southern part of Morris County. 
R. Vf. Harned (June 24): Specimens of garden webworms were 
collected on butterbeans at Cleveland on June 3, and on cot- 
ton at Leota landing on the same date, but very little injury 
was reported. 
LARGER COM STALK BORER ( Diatraea zeacolella Dyar . ) 
J. R. Watson (June 23): The larger corn stalk borer has 
been unusually abundant in western Florida. 
J. M. Rcbinson (June 25): The larger corn stalk borer has 
done quite a bit of damage to corn in central and southern 
Alabama, infestations varying from 5 to 50 per cent. Reports 
received from the following places: Ozark, Greenville, Troy, 
Andalusia, Columbia, and Loachapoka. 
SEED CORN SEETLS ( Agonoderus pallipes Fab. ) 
W. P. Flint (Juae 19): These beetles have caused considerable 
damage in the central counties. 
M. K. Swenk (May 15-June 15): The seed corn beetle which was 
reported as appearing in great numbers duning the first week in 
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