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GRASS 
A SOD UEB'JORM ( Crambus sp.) 
Nebraska. M. H. Swcnk (April 20 to- May 20): Injury to a lam "by sod vcbworms 
was rc'portcd from Scotts Bluff County the second week in Hay. 
SUGARCAIS 
SUGARCANE BEETLE ( Suctheola rir.icovs Lee.) 
Alabama. J. M. Robinson (May 20): The sugarcane beetle is moderately abundr i 
on sugarcane at Frisco City and Elmore, and on corn at Excel and Anniston. 
Louisiana. \I. E. Hinds (April 28): Sugarcane beetles appear to be unusually 
widely distributed and are doing considerable damage. Egg laying began about 
the first week of April and newly hatched Larvae were found in the field the 
middle of April. 
J. *7. Ingram (May 22): The sugarcane beetle began attacking young cane shoots 
during the latter part of March. Injury reached the maximum during the lat- 
ter part of April and the first part of May, and has been decreasing since 
that time. 'Jhile injury can be found throughout the State, the major in- 
jury, as in past years, has occurred in St. Mary, St. Martin, Lafayette, and 
Iberia Parishes. Large areas have had over 25 per cent of the plants killed. 
. Injury is heavier than it was in 1932 but not so heavy as it was in 1931. 
Mississippi. C. Lyle and assistants (May): This insect vras recorded severely in- 
juring corn in the vicinity of Hattiesburg and Utica during the latter "art 
of the month. (Abstract, J.A.H. ) 
SUGARCANE R00TST0CK WEEVIL ( Anacentrinus subnudus Buchanan) 
Louisiana. W. E. Hinds (April 28): Sugarcane root- stock weevils occurring in 
stubble cane in Lafayette Parish appear to be a factor in the poor stands of 
cane which are being secured on some areas of well drained soil, as reported 
by Mr. C. B, Gouaux. 
tflBE'JOEMS (Elateridae) 
Florida. T. E. Holloway (May 18): A correspondent reports that wirororras are in- 
juring sugarcane in the Everglades. One 40-acre field shows a loss of 50 per*" 
cent. Replantlngs have been necessary to procure a stand at the State Experi- 
ment Station. 
SUGAHCAS3 BORER (Djatraea saccharalis Fab. ) 
Florida. T. E. Holloway (May 18): Reports from reliable observers in the Ever- 
glades indicate that gre:^t damage is being done by the sugarcane borer. 
Louisiana- 'J. E. Hinds (April 28): Sugarcane borer moths began emerging about 
April 1 at Baton Rouge, and somewhat earlier, -probably about March 20 in 
southern Louisiana. Eggs were first found April 6 at Baton Rouge. Ame: 
about 1,500 borer eggs collected to April 17 no Tricho gramma parasitism was 
found and no Tricho gramma in some 800 Lopido-torous eggs of ot ecics up 
to that date. 
T. E. Holloway (May 18): The sugarcane borer is slow in reaching harmful 
numbers this year. 
Mississippi. T. E. Holloway and ff. E. Haley (May 18): No indication of the 
presence of the sugarcane borer was found in an inspection of cane fields 
along the Mississippi Coast. 
