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Delaware 
G. F. Knowlton (September 21); Grasshoppers are moderately 
to very abundant. They seem to be becoming less abundant 
than they were last month. 
G. G. Schweis (September 22): Grasshoppers are very 
abundant in western Nevada. Considerable damage has been 
done to the second crop of alfalfa. 
C. D. Lebert (September 25): Grasshoppers are troublesome 
only in the northern part of the State at the present time. 
They were eating truck near Prescott, rather voraciously 
about the 15th of September. 
D. C. Mote (August): Grasshoppers are very abundant 
field crops in Lane County. 
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CUT'.VQBMS (Noctuidae) 
J. A. Munro (September 19): Cutworm injury to flax fields 
extended through the first week in July at Ke^he, Pembina 
County, according to a report received from a farmer of that 
vicinity. He states that many fields of flax, which had 
been resown during June on account of previous cutworm 
injury, had been seriously injured a second time. He 
estimated that cutworms had caused 50 per cent injury to 
fl&x fields in his part of the country. The cutworms were 
identified as Suxoa ochrogaster Guen. 
H. E. Jaques (September 25) : Ten counties report marked 
fall activity of cutworms. 
C. P. Gillette (September 19): Lycophotia margaritosa 
saucia Hbn. is very abundant and injurious to celery in the 
Denver area. It is also doing considerable injury to potato 
vines in parts of the San Luis Valley. 
G. G. Schweis (August 19): Species of Prodenia have been 
reported from a wide area, including many counties in Nevada 
and eastern California, where they have been reported as 
doing damage to alfalfa, potatoes, grapes, and other crops. 
C. !:. Fisher (August 27): The yellow-striped armyworm 
(P rodenia praeficja Grote) has been doing considerable 
damage to baby lima and blackeye beans in the vicinity 
of Modesto, 'forms first started in alfalfa. 
FALL ARi\iYT»0R& ( Laphygma {rugiperda S. & A. ) 
L. A. Steams (September 15): The fall armyworm was 
seriously abundant in certain localities about pelton and 
Camden, August 20. 
