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CORN EAR WORM ( Heliothis obsoleta Fat . ) 
New York. N. Y. State Coll. Agr. , weekly News Letter (July 25): The corn ear 
worn is raising havoc with sweet corn again this year. Many growers of early 
sweet corn have given up hope of marketing any of their product, in Ononda- 
ga County. 
New Jersey. T. J. Headlee, R. C. Burden e, and C. H. Nissley (July): The corn 
ear worm was damaging early "beans during the first week in July in the 
southern part of the State. (Abstract, J.A.H. ) 
Pennsylvania. T. L. Guy ton (July 25): The com ear worn is very abundant in 
York County. 
Delaware. L. A. Stearns (July 22): Corn ear worm at Angola on July 3. Tomato 
fruit worm reported at Sir/ma July 6. 
Virginia. H. G. Walker (July 27): The corn ear worm is very abundant on green 
wrap tomatoes on the eastern shore. 
Florida. J. R. Watson (July 26): The corn ear worm is very abundant as usual. 
Ohio. T. H. Parks (July): We are getting reports from many sections of the 
State of the injury that has been done to tomato fruits. The insect is also 
being found in the heart leaves and tassels of sweet corn. Heavy injury is 
• expected to sweet corn from the later generation of larvae. Greenhouse 
men in Cuyahoga County are preparing to screen their greenhouses against the 
moths to protect the October and early winter tomato crop. These men suf- 
fered heavy loss to greenhouse tomatoes last fall. 
Indiana. L. Pierce (July 13): The early tomato crop, an important commercial 
crop in Knox County, is threatened with almost complete destruction on ac- 
count of a very heavy infestation. Some fields were abandoned at the be- 
ginning of the picking season. In sorting over an entire truck load in 
one instance it was found that only 1 bushel was fit for market. 
H. 0. Deay (July 25): Corn ear worm reported feeding in curl of field 
corn at Shoals, July 1, and Evan sv ill e, July 8; attacked bean pods at Elk- 
hart, July 15, and at Paoli, July 16. Specimens feeding in stem of tomato 
were found at Lafayette, July 18. Many reports of serious injury -to ears 
of sweet corn were received from throughout the State. 
Zen tuck;/. W 4 A. Frice (July 26): The com ear worm continues to be a serious 
pest generally over the State on corn and tomatoes. 
Michigan. E. I. McDaniel (July 13): The corn ear worm is just beginning to give 
trouble in Michigan. Practically all sweet-corn growers in the vicinity of 
Monroe--are suffering from a 50 to a 75 per cent infestation. Growers from 
Grand Rapids report heavy losses on sweet corn in the field and from to- 
matoes under glass. Yesterday we received a number of corn ear worms from 
Sparta where they were working on pop-corn. This particular crop is rather 
slow and the worms were working in the tassel. They are fully two- thirds 
grown. At Monroe many of the larvae are ready to pupate. 
