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ALFALFA LOOPER (Autogra/oha californlca Soever) 
Colorado. G. M. List (June 22): There is a very general and rather heavy 
outbreak throughout the southern and western narts of the State. In 
some areas true-' crous , especially head lettuce, are "being severely 
injured. Peas and sweetclover seem to he favorite hosts. In some of 
the orchard sections the lookers are migrating from these crops to 
fruit trees. 
Oregon. D. C. Mote (June): Caterpillars are very abundant and are damag- 
ing seedling alfalfa, Austrian neas, beans, squash, corn and other 
crops in the Willamette Valley. 
L. P. Bockwood (June 18): A general outbreak, particularly in 
red clover, is in progress in Washington County. The northern part of 
the county is most seriously affected. As the hay crop is taken off 
the worms eat down the small amount of green residue and second growth. 
The most serious damage is to adjacent corn and lima beans, to which 
the worms migrate after the hay is removed. One field of seed onions 
adjacent to hay was bein?; seriously damaged. Tae worms preferred the 
onion leaves but, as there were few of these, they were feeding on 
the seed stalks, weakening them and causing loss of seed heads. Grass 
and grains, including wild oats, are not attacked. There was consid- 
erable feeding on the late green "oods of common hairy vetch in one 
field, but smooth vetch in the same field was apparently not damaged. 
SALT-MARSH CATERPILLAR ( Estigmene acraea Drury) 
Oklahoma. P. A. Penton (June 2k): Three species of woolly worms have been 
unusually numerous this past spring — Isia Isabella S. & A. , Diacrisia 
virginica Fab., and Estigmene acraea Drury. These caterpillars caused 
severe injury to cotton seedlings and to corn and melon cro"os, destroy- 
ing stands. They fed on riuening peaches and tomato f raits, but not 
on tomato foliage. Legumes, beans in Particular, were being injured 
by the worms eating the blooms and -oods. The salt-marsh cateroillar 
was unusually abundant on sweetclover. This species comprised about 
90 uercent of the oonulation and at present it is being wi-n e d out by 
some disease. 
Texas. H. J. Reinharci (June 22): Pull-grown larvae of the salt-marsh 
cateroillar are common in cornfields, where they are feeding on silks. 
This insect has also been noted as seriously damaging chrysanthemum 
plants. 
WHITE GRUBS (PhyUophaga Bpp.) 
Maine. H. B. Peirson (June 22): The first flight of Mav beetles at Bar 
Harbor occurred on May 27, following two warn days. 
New Hampshire. L. C. Glover (June S): June beetles are beginning to be 
more numerous now, although the first flight was reported on May 29. 
