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field' where they had been feeding on- alfalfa and weeds* 
EUROPEAN EARWIG ( Forficula auricularia L. ) 
Washington. E. W. Jones (June 2l): The earwig is very abundant in park dis- 
tricts of Walla Walla. Home flower gardens were attacked by the young 
nymphs. They were reported as becoming a pest on sleeping porches, 
CEREAL AND F R A G E-C R0P : 'IN SECTS 
WHEAT AND OTHER SMALL GRAINS 
HESSIAN FLY ( Phytophaga destructor Say) 
Missouri and Kansas. E. T. Jones (May 1937) : Limited surveys of fall-brood 
hessian flies in southwestern Missouri and central, eastern, and south- 
ern Kansas indicated only light, widely scattered infestations. Obser- 
vations indicate very light infestations of first spring-brood flies over 
this area, 
ARMYWORM ( Cirphis unipuncta Haw. ) 
Delawa.ro, L. A.' Stearns (-June 8): Serious infestation on^crops was noted on 
wheat' and. 'cbrh at Taylors Bridge, New Castle County. 
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Maryland. E. N. Cory (June U): Two small outbreaks in Worcester County, 
Virginia. D. W, Jones (June J>) : The highest infestation is in Northampton 
County between Eastville and Cheriton. Pupation is well under way and 
most of the remaining larvae are at least l-£ inches long. The cement 
road near the worst infested field is almost greasy from the caterpil- 
lars that have been crushed by automobiles. One field showed an average 
of nearly 200 worms per square foot. A pea field across the road, and 
separated from it by two deep ditches showed an average of 10 worms per 
running foot of row for 30 feet and was practically clean in the re- 
mainder of the field (there was chickweed in the row with the pea vines). 
An infestation nearly as bad was about 3 miles west in about 100 acres 
of wheat and vetch. Stacks of cut straw about 6 feet in diameter showed 
many worms in both Eastville and Cheriton. Some were up in the straw 
but most of them were on the ground and in moist trash, especially about 
a foot from the outer edge of the stack. In shaking the straw and mak- 
ing square-foot counts in 20 placos, the average was 182 per square foot 
and seemed to run quite uniformly. Some pupae were noted in this situ- 
ation and some cGcaohs of a'braconid parasite. The farmc roads and 
ditches showed frass and dead worms \ inch deep in many places. 
Virginia, A, M, Woodside (June 23) * A heavy infestation was reported near 
Timberville, in Rockingham County, on June U. Barley was damaged l^pavily by 
the larvae which cut off many of the heads. Wheat was also damaged to 
some extent. 
