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have continued to injure truck crops during the wet periods of earl;: June. A 
cornfield examined near Oxford, Chester County, on June 20 was about 40 per cent 
destroyed "by larvae of s species of Melanotus , which were bori/ ■ -'. : :'. a 
of the stalks and killing the central leaves of the plants. 
North Carolina. C. E. Brannon (May 22): wireworm damage to tobacco is reported 
over a wide area. 
Michigan. R. Eut'son (June 17): Wireworms, chiefly A. nancus , are moderately 
abundant in localized areas. 
North Dakota. J. A. Munro (June 15): We have had considerable trouble with wire- 
worms in Barnes County this last week and in many places the grain is entirely 
destroyed, wireworms were very injurious to iris plants at Sheyenne and at 
Fargo. Injury to corn in the vicinity of Page is serious.- 
Iowa. H. E. Jaques (June): wireworms are scarce in Monona, Harrison, Guthrie, 
Hancock, Madison, Grundy, Poweshiek, and Muscatine Counties; moderately abundant 
in Crawford, Carroll, Palt)Alto, Union, Warren, Chickasaw, Buchanan, and lav is 
Counties; and very abundant in Osceola County. 
Alabama. K. L. Cockerham (May 31): The injury to the potato crop at Eoley by 
Eetorodercs laurenti i Guer., although not so severe as that of two years ago, 
has been quite general. An examination of certificates of shipping-point 
inspections showed the wireworm injury was approximately as great as the com- 
bination of all other defects, such as decay, cuts and bruises, sun scald, growt 
cracks, mechanical injury, and scab. Probably the average of injury was from 
2 to 4 percent . 
Missouri. L. Haseman (June 24): During the month a very heavy emergence of an 
unidentified species of wireworm occurred in central Missouri. 
MORMON CRICKET (Anabrus simple x Enid.) 
Idaho. R. W. Haegele (June 19): The outbreak of the mormon cricket in Bingham 
County is severe; control work has prevented damage to crops. It is occurring 
in outbreak numbers in Bonneville and Bannock Counties, and there are li- - 
infestations in Caribou and Elmore Counties. The insects are nearly mature, 
except in Caribou County, where hatching did not start until early Juj , 
A MOLE CRICKET ( Scapteriscus acletus R. & E.) 
Texas. J. N. Roney (June 15): The golf courses of ; Galveston Island are heavily 
infested and in many instances greens have been ruined. • 
CEREAL A " D EORAGE-CR OP I "SECTS 
CORN 
CHINCH BUG ( Blissus leuc op torus Soy) 
Ohio. T. H. Parks (June 28): An outbreak of chinch bugs occurred in Madison Cc..' 
where' the young bugs had destroyed a field of spring barley and were crossing 
