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North Dakota 
Iowa 
Nebraska 
Indiana J. J. Davis (Hay 26): Wireworms were reported as damaging 
flowering plants at Middleton on. May 15, planted melon seed 
at Br owns town May 15, and corn at Shelbyville May 23. 
Michigan R. H. Pettit (May 25): Wireworms are very abundant. 
Wisconsin E. L. Chambers (May 26): Several reports have been received 
from county agents and farmers in Gran and LaCrosse Counties 
to the effect that wireworms are doing unusually severe injury 
to cornfields on low ground. 
J. A. Munro (April 20): Wireworms are moderately abuadant 
in Kidder County, as observed in the preparation of the soil 
for planting. 
H. 33. Jaqv.es (May 25): Wireworms were reported as scarce 
in the following counties: Emmet, Mills, Madison, and Monroe; 
moderately abundant in Sioux, Osceola, Crawford, Harrison, 
Page, Guthrie, Union, and Tama; very abundant in Jones County. 
M. K. Swenk (April 15 - May 15): The cool weather of late 
April and May has been favorable to wirewom -injury. During 
the first week in May a Johnson County correspondent reported 
a loss of stand over large spots in a field of spring- sown 
alfalfa due to these pests. The species concerned were 
Monocropidius auritus Hbst., Melanotus cribulosus Lee., and 
M. pilosus Blatch. 
H. R. Bryson (May 23): Wireworms are moderately abundant 
and reports of injury to slowly germinating corn at La Cygne 
on May 20 were received. 
D. Iscly (Hay 25): Wireworms ( Melanotus sp. ) are causing 
injury to corn near Harrisburg. (Determined by J. A. Hyslop. ) 
K. L. Cocke rham (May 30): Injury by Heteroderes laurentii 
Guer. to the commercial sweetpotato crop this spring is far 
greater than at any time since this species was discovered in 
southern Alabama. Many plantations have 50 per cent of the tubers 
damaged and the Bureau of Markets' Inspectors report that 25 per 
cent of the crop on shipping platforms during the week of Hay 
23 to 30 was damaged. 
[ississippi IT. L. Douglass (May 19): Wireworms have been reported 
injuring corn on low bottom land in Montgomery County 
especially. 
ia E. 0. Essig (May 22): Wireworms are moderately abundant 
in the Delta of Sacramento River. 
Kansas 
Kansas 
Mississippi 
and 
Alabama 
