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Kansas. H. R. Bryson (April 20): False wireworms ( Eleodes spp. ) were quite 
numerous in western Kansas last fall and are still present in consider- 
able numbers. Very little damage was done to planted wheat, owing to 
the fact, that sufficient soil moisture was present to insure rapid 
germination; One report was received from Atwood, indicating that 
larvae had done some injury to the underground part of the wheat stems. 
CLOVER MITE ( Bryobia p'raetiosa Koch) 
Oklahoma. F. A. Fenton (April 17)'. A new pest, which has caused consider- 
able injury in many wheat fields, is developing. This has been tenta- 
tively identified as the brown mite (B. praetiosa ) . It was first seen 
in the southwestern part of the State but has been reported recently 
from Enid to Stillwater, in the north-central part of the State. 
A MITE ( Petrobia tritici Ewing) . 
Kansas. H. R. Bryson (April 22): R. H. Painter and R. C. Smith found a mite, 
probably. P. tritici , in four fields in central Kansas in the vicinity of 
Ellsworth, Mcpherson, and Lindsborg, but it was not causing the damage 
reported. Dry weather was responsible for most of the injury observed. 
Mites were abundant in only one field. 
CORN 
EUROPEAN CORN BORER ( Pyraust a nubilalis Hbn. ) 
Virginia. H. G. Walker and L. D. Anderson (April 27) J Pupae were found at 
Norfolk on April 8. Several of the pupae were getting quite dark in 
color, as though they had been in the pupal stage for several days. 
ALFALFA 
ALFALFA 1SEEVIL ( Hypera postica Gyll.) 
Utah. G. F. Knowlton (April lU): Alfalfa weevils have been picked up on a 
number of occasions this spring, in berry patches many rods from the 
nearest alfalfa field. 
California. A. E. Michelbacher (April 21): The harvest of the first crop 
of alfalfa in middle lowland California is nearly completed. In not a 
single case did the alfalfa, weevil cause any economic injury. In one 
field near Patterson, in the San Joaquin Valley, the larval count 
reached about 2,000 individuals per 100 sweeps of an insect net before 
the field was cut. In the rest of the infested area highest average 
collections per 100 sweeps of a net failed to reach 500. In many fields 
the count was less than' 100. Parasitization by Bathyp le ctes curculionis 
Thorns,, has continued heavy. In the San Francisco Bay area it has 
remained close to 95 percent. On the 29th of March in the heavily in- 
fested field near Patterson only 3'H»5 percent of the larvae were para- 
sitized, while in other fields in the San Joaquin Valley parasitization 
ranged from 70 to 80 percent. 
