Mormon cricket and that about 15 square miles was infested in the Dryhead 
area west of the reservation near the Wyoming "boundary. The insect is 
reported to he present in large numbers in the latter State in territory 
contiguous with the infestation in Montana previously mentioned. 
ARMY CUTWORM ( Chorizagrot is auxiliaris Grote) 
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Kansas. H. R. Bryson (March 20): The army cutworm is moderately abundant in 
wheat and alfalfa fields. At Manhattan the larvae are more plentiful in 
the old alfalfa fields than in new fields. Some damage to wheat has been 
reported from Winfield, Cowley County, and in the vicinity of Hutchinson, 
Reno County. 
Wyoming. C. L. Corkins (March 20): C. auxiliaris is moderately abundant but 
not active in Hot Springs County. 
ALFALFA WEB WORM ( Loxostege commixtalis Walk.) 
Kansas. H. R. Bryson (March 20) : Many overwintering larvae in tubes were 
sent in from Hoxie, Overwintering tubes were said to be very numerous 
in fields where pigweeds were present. There have been heavy flights of 
moths during the last few years. 
WIREWORMS (Elateridae) 
New Jersey. R. C. Burdette (March): A few wireworms are appearing in plant 
beds in northern New Jersey. 
Indiana. J. J. Davis (March 27): Wireworms are reported as abundant in some 
muck fields of northern Indiana. 
Texas. F. L. Thomas (March 20): Wireworms are very abundant at Nixon, Gonzales 
County. A correspondent states that he has planted corn the third time and 
that wireworms have destroyed practically all plantings. 
California. E. 0. Essig (March 22): Wireworms are moderately abundant in the 
Delta Region. 
A. E. Michelbacher (March 21): L imonius canus Lee. was moderately abundant 
at Courtland, Sacramento County. 
M. L. Jones (March 16): Tulare County reports wireworms as causing slight 
damage to 50 acres of truck crops and melons generally during February. 
E. H. Wymore (March 21): Wireworms are moderately abundant at Davis, Yolo 
County, attacking tomato plants in cold-frame beds. 
JAPANESE BEETLE ( Popillia .ja^onica Newm.) 
New Jersey. Japanese Beetle Laboratory (Bur, Ent.) (March 2): Although the air 
temperature for the month in New Jersey reached as low as -13 F., the soil 
temperatures recorded at the Moorestown laboratory did not go below 22 F. 
The larvae of the Japanese beetle does not withstand temperatures much 
below 15 F. This cold wave has been accompanied by snow, which has so 
protected the ground that the temperatures apparently have not reached a 
point where they would kill many larvae. 
