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fall. x T one have "been found this spring in any situation. Experi- 
ments show that wintering here by live aphids would he impossible," 
and by eggs unlikely. 
ELAliTS IhLGE V/IHET7CE1: ( Sleodeg onaca Say) 
Kansas j. 7. Mc'Colloch (-June 20): adults of the false wireworm were 
found very abundant in the -heat fields at Hays on June S. Beetles 
■•ore also reported abundant at Ulysses on Hay 25. 
. Y CUTii/CRM (Choi - i zao.- ot i s auxil i c - r i g Srote) 
' '' ' 7 E - Swenk (April 25-liay 25): As was briefly reported last month, 
tne army cutworm was responsible for serious damage to winter 
wheat and alfalfa during the period cohered by that report (.larch 
15 -April 25). Ihe complaints of such injury can 3 from an area ex- 
tending from Daves, Perkins, and Furnas Counties on the -'est to 
Antelope end Imckolls Counties on the east, the westernmost com- 
plaints being mostly of injury to winter vtfieat, while those from 
tne more southern and eastern localities -ere of injury to alfalfa, 
especially to young alfalfa that was seeded last fall. Along with 
the larger, more nearly matured array cutworms, there occurred also 
ars of younger cutworms, - ■ 1 or less, of the 
"dca vf3^-^ messaria). Dur he month cf May these 
. * siaea Cut ° rms crntmued their development on the alfalfa, and 
mth the ? e s ^d two species of Suxoa, injury in zre alfalfa fields 
mac been continuous from early April _) tc the fourth week in 
i.iay (22). 1'he younger and weaker fields seeded last fall have 
oeen injured, many of them having been destroyed, hut in man. 
cases larger and older fields have also been more or less stripped 
of their leaves. T.-.c center of this injury is in t! in- 
closed ^y Antelope, Greeley, and h"adiso~. Counties, but it extends 
1 st to Cherry County and south to Merrick rid fe'l] Counties; To- 
gether, hundred? of acres of alfalf, have boon injured hese 
cutworms during the period covered by this report. 
Nebraska ;.;. . ■ Q^y 25-June 25): As a result of the outbreak of the 
army cutworm, ^uxoa auxil iar is. during the last hall of March 
and the month of April, fairly heavy i hts of t! ult moths 
reared about the first of June over the infested area, and e 
ward over the State. 
Montana M. 3. llabee (Juno 1~) : Ihere has beer, a very general infestation 
"oy this insect practically clear across central Montana. There 
has been very little actual damage' as the cro were late and the 
cutworms bi upating before much could be done? however, 
M ce nc. ne 300-acre field of flax '-as eaten off, 
and a 300-acre field of winter whe t -as seriously injured. 1 
x, however, is sending up ne 1 " . its aa ral] rob -ot be 
a total loss. 
