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D. B, Whelan (June 22): Cutworms have been somewhat more than normally 
abundant and injurious from May 21 through June 20 in gardens and corn- 
fields especially. The period of their greatest destructiveness was 
from May 23 to June 7. Moths of the "black cutworm, or groasy cutworm, 
A. ypsilon Rott., have "been flying since April 23, most abundantly dur- 
ing the last week in April and the first week in May, around nid~May, and 
a.?;ain during the second week in June. M ths of the spotted cutworm, 
A. c~ ni-?rum . were flying abundantly from May 17 to June 13, reaching.: a 
maximum on June 3. Moths of the cotton cutworm, Prodenia ornithogalli . 
were flying from May U on, and in greatest numbers from June 7 to 15. 
The bristly cutworm, Polia renigera Staph., was present in fairly heavy 
flights from May 25 on, especially from May 31 "to June 10. Moths of the 
dark-sided cutworm, Euxoa nessoria Harr.. were not noted until June 10, 
and are still flying in moderate abundance. The dusky cutworm, P. 
venerabilis Walk. . was reported destroying completely a growth of 
burningbush (Kochia scoparia ) in Boone County on May 27. 
Wyoming. M. D. Carson (June): Approximately 100 acres of sugar beets, corn, 
and alfalfa had been injured in Platte County, in southeastern Wyoming, 
by May 27, by Chorizagrotis auxiliaris . A few complaints have come in 
since then. (Det. by Margaret Greenwald. ) 
Utah. G. F. Knowlton (June 8): Adults of A. c- nigrum . are coming to trap 
lights at Logan in Cache County. 
(June lU)j Numerous adults of the striped beet caterpillar, Scotogramma 
trifplii Rott., have been coming to th--j trap light at Spanish Fork, Utah 
County. 
(June 20): Relatively few Porosagrotis orthogonia Morr. as compared 
with the number in 1937* They are now entering the prepupal stage, 
BEET WE3V-.0RM (Lpxostege. sticticalis L. ) 
South Dakota. H. C. Severin (June): Sugar beet webworms have made their 
appearance in nary areas and have done some damage. 
Nebraska. M. H. Swenk (June 22): A serious outbreak of this pest, evidently 
originating from infestations on chenopodiaceous weeds, was reported on 
June 20 from Box Butte County, in western Nebraska, where control measures 
were resorted to. 
Wyoming. Margaret Greenwald (June 15): Adults have been flying since early in 
May in Park County, in northwestern Wyoming, but have been noticed to be 
unusually numerous the last two weeks. 
Utah. H. E. Dorst (June 23): Very few of these moths have been observed in 
beet fields in northern Utah. No injury is anticipated as beets are too 
large. 
