CORN-LEAF APKID (/..phis maid is Fitch) 
Nebraska M. H. Sftenk (August 15-31):' Curing the x hird week in August there 
was a report of such an abundance of the corn-leaf aphid in a Saline 
County field that the plants showed evident stunting and injury. 
ALFALFA AND f-LOVER 
FALL ARHY^OBM ( Laphygma frugiperda 5. ft A.) 
New Mexico R« Middlebrook (September 13): The fall armyworm is reported as 
present in Estancia "V alley. 
COTTON rUTVORM (P rodenia ornithogalli Guen.) 
Nebraska M. H. Swenk (Septemoer 1-15): Toward the middle of the month 
enough individuals cf the cotton cutworm occurred in alfalfa fields 
in this district to confuse some farmers as tc the real cause of the 
consuming ar.d webbing of the leaves in sore of the old alfalfa fields 
GARDEN 'TB'TK" (L oxosteg e similalis Guen J 
Indiana J.J. Davis (September 26): One r^eort cf injury to young alfalfa 
by the alfalfa webworm was received f rem the extreme northern and 
of the State, Elkhart bounty, August "It. 
Illinois \7. P. Flint (Septemoer 13): The garden webwerm is attacking al- 
falfa. This insect has oeen abundant throughout " r estem Illinois, 
where it has destroyed many new plantings cf alfalfa seeded during 
August, 1923. It r.us not 'oeen cuf : jc^entj y abundant to cause any 
damage to older fields. 
Missouri L. Kuaeman (September 19): This pest has matured its summer brood. 
Moths were abundant en ^"ing September 1. 
Nebraska M. K, Swenk (August 15-31): /s a result cf the ^reat aoundanco of 
moths of the garden webworm, which were flying during August, report 
of injury to the third cutting of alfalfa, and especially of injury 
to fields of young alfalfa so ,,r n late in July or early in .August, by 
the xhird urocc 1 of webworms , began to be received August £1 and 
have continued until the present writing « The reports to date 
have core from Otoe, Gage, Lancaster, Sewurd, York, Adams , hand , 
during the last few days in August, frOff Bcone and Pierce Counties. 
Many of the webworms are yet small, sot tat very likely injury '"ill 
contirue for several da^'s int< -r.j-r. (September 1-15): In- 
jury to ill" all e oy the gurcen ' e orm c-ntin r-d through the first 
week in ^eotemter. Reports came duriiig this period chiefly from 
Antelcpe and Bccne ^cuntieo, but aico :rom Kncx bounty to the north 
and fror h'ance and Merrick r our.t~es to the south, these counties 
forming a lir.5 along the 9&th meridian north cf the Platte River 
in this State, In nearly every case it was recently zo- rr n alfalfa 
that was most dameged. 
