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well plowed under. Infestation is moderate, compared with 
tne average year. Adults are at large with no parasites. The 
weather ms sunny and hot. (April ll): Three fields were exarined 
at Pacific, Franklin County* Infestation is severe. Adults 
are at large, pi nut a form* The weather is: sunny and wary?.* 
Idaho Claude lakeland (April 16): Adults are emerging from oid 
stubble of spring-»planted wheat of 1922. The crop is darraged 
55 per cent, "by counting stems. 
WIREWORMS (Elateridae) 
Texas M» C. Tanquary (April 23): Mr* R* R* Reppert reports injury 
by wireworma to wheat and sorghums in west Texas. 
GREAT PLAINS FALSE ^IRE^ORM ( Eleodes onaca Say) 
Nebraska M- H« Swenk (April 18): The Great Plains false wireworm has 
again this spring shown considerable capacity for doing injury 
in the wheat fields* luring the first week in April it was 
reported working in the wheat fields of Hitchcock County, some 
fields being very badly infested, and also in Perkins County, 
where in wheat fields tha-o followed summer-fallowed land the 
false wirewoms completely destroyed the plants, in the vicinity 
of Grant* The next week similar reports ware received from 
Cheyenne County, where this pest spoiled many stands of wheat 
this spring. Luring the last week in March further reports 
of injury in the fields of Nance County, where trouble was 
experienced last November, were received* 
CUTWORMS (soecies unknown) 
Texas 0. G» Babcock (April 17): Almost every bunch .of grain, horehound, 
and many other weeds, as well a.s grass plots, at Sonora shows the 
presence of cutworms, 
does not show as yet. 
of the worms* 
Owing to heavy and cool rains, damage 
No study has been made as to the parasitisrc 
Wyoming 
Idaho 
MORMON CRICKET (Anabrus simplex Hald.) 
Stewart Lockwood (telegram dated April 23): Reports that the 
Mormon cricket is hatching in serious numbers at Thermopolis, 
Wyoming, over an area of approximately 2,000 acres. The 
•.crickets are just hatching at this time. 
D* B» Whelan (April 16): E? 
Eranklin County* 
CORN 
are beginning to hatch 
TEEL3£Er»S BO TTSD CUCUMBER-BEETLE ( Diabrotica 12- ounctata Oliv.) 
Louisiana T. H. Jones (April 2): At Baton Rouge a few Jroung corn plants 
