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covering the ground in places. Very little evidence of 
feeding was found on March 21 but on April 2 some feeding 
was noticed on buckhom plantain. Pupae also were found on 
the latter date. The first butterflies were noticed on 
April 10. 
Vermont 
WIREWOBMS (Elateridae) 
Harold L. Bailey (April 18): V/ireworms are moderately 
abundant . 
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P. S. Chamberllu (April 23): Wireworms have necessitated 
the resetting of tobacco in some fields in Gadsden County. 
L. Haseman and Paul H. Johnson (April 21): "ivirewonns 
are reported scarce at Columbia. Species not determined 
but less abundant than usual. 
M, H. Swenk (April 17): Wireworma ( Melanotus flssilis Say) 
are moderately abundant in eastern Nebraska. 
K. L. Cockerham (April 7): Eight and six-tenths per cent 
of the adults of Heteroderes laurentii Guer. which were 
placed in hibernating cages last fall were alive on April 7 
when the cages were examined and taken up. These beetles 
were placed on the surface of the ground in trash, potato 
vines, etc., and enclosed in screen-wire cages. Turing the 
winter the lowest temperature recorded here was 18° F. 
P. W. Harned and assistants (Ap*ril): 7?ireworm3 are 
moderately abundant in many parts of the State, being often 
recorded as injuring sweet potatoes. 
C. '.Take land (April 22): Tn'ireworms are reverted in south- 
western Idaho. Adults emerged in early March and Mr. 
Lanchester, of the U. S. Bureau of Entomology, reports 
them as very abundant. 
•■'HITS GRUBS ( Phyllophaga 3pp.) 
J. B. Gill (April 25): May beetles have been devouring 
the 3hoot3 and foliage of pecan trees at Albany and Americus . 
No extensive damage has been observed in pecan orchards. 
J. S. Houser (April 16): White grubs are very abundant. 
J. J. Davis (April 23): Reports continue to indicate the 
probability of damage by white grubs in the northwestern 
quarter of the State. 
E. L. Chambers (April 25): White grubs will be very 
abundant, as indicated by beetle flight last j*ear. 
