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Missouri. A. F. Sat ter thwart (April 28). 
at V/ebster Groves." 
"Ovipositing in wheat on April 25 
PAIE WESTERN CUT W OBI ( Porosagrotis orthogonia Morr . ) 
Montana. R. a. Cooley. "The pale western cutworm is again present over the 
general territory infested last year, and, if past experience can 
be counted on, the losses from this insect in 1921 will be enormous. 
However, in one locality in the heart of the infested region, where 
since 1918 from 25 per cent to 50 per cent of the acreage seeded has 
been a total loss, no damage has as yet shown up." 
A. L. Strand (May 10). "About 75 per cent of the winter wheat will 
be totally destroyed at Power, Teton County. Calosoma calidum has 
been observed preying upon these insects. 10 per cent of the rye at 
Sweet Grass, Toole County, has already been destroyed, and many wheat 
fields over Hill Cuunty are heavily infested and will be a total 
loss." 
J. y. Manning (May 2). "More abundant than usual in JLercfcs and 
Clark County. Heavy losses of the crop expected," 
D. W. Jones (March 4). "Damage to wheat by this insect just be- 
ginning to show up . much damage expected in Chouteau County . " 
(May 32). "Heavy damage to fall and spring wheat beginning to show 
up in Stillwater County." 
Colorado. C. P. Gillette (May 24). "This cutworm, which has attractfed so much 
attention in Montana, is evidently a native of Colorado and has been 
somewhat more active than usual in the winter wheat belt east of the 
mountains the present spring. Thousands of acres have been suf- 
ficiently injured' to make it necessary to plow and put in another 
crop." 
WESTERN WHEAT-STEM MAGGOT ( Hylemvia cerealis Gillette. ) 
Montana, R. a. Cooley. "Severe losses to fall and spring wheat through 
central Montana have been due to a recurrence of this insect. It 
was first reported here in 1918. As the maggots axe about full 
grovvn, destroyed fields are now being reseeded." 
Ac L. Strand reports this insect as almost as abundant in Cascade 
County as it was in 1918, when many thousand acres were necessarily 
reseeded. He further states that 15 per cent of the acreage in Hill 
County has been destroyed by this insect. 
W« H. Jones reports from Stillwater County that in many fields the 
v/heat is a total loss. 
