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served in AIa"bama on April 17. Eggs were very numerous by the 23d of 
May in the to;:.- to plaritationa of that State and in Mississippi. By the 
first of July it was occurring in serious numbers in the South Atlantic 
and Gulf States as well as in southern California, During July sweet 
corn was more seriously injured than ever before recorded in Ohio, The 
insect was also more abundant than usual in Kansas* By September 1, reports 
of heavy damage had been received from practically the entire corn belt, 
the lo--er Mississippi Valley, and the East-Central States, 
STALK BORER, 
The stalk borer ( Papaipema nebris nitela Guen, ) ^as generally pre- 
valent over the entire upper Mississipoi Valley, reports of unnsual 
abundance of the young larvae having been received from Indiana, Illinois, 
Kansas, Nebraska, and Minnesota. During July reports were received from 
New England, the Middle Atlantic, and the entire East-Central areas, 
-estward to Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa, and South Dakota. A large number of 
these observations "ere made incident to the search for the European 
corn borer, 
LESSER CORN STALK BORER. 
A serious outbreak of the lesser corn stalk borer ( Slasmopaluus 
lignosellus Zell,) developed early in May in the southern T)art of 
Mississippi, Previous outbreaks occurred in 1921 and 1924. Later in the 
season similar injury to corn was observed near Gulf port, La, 
LINED CORN BORER, 
The lined corn borer (Hadena fractilinea Grote) caused some 
injury during June in the upper corn belt from vestern New York to 
southeastern Minnesota, 
CUTWORMS, 
Early in the season (March) cutworms (Noctuidae) were unusually 
abundant and injurious in south-central Texas. In April the army cut- 
worm was reported in damaging numbers from Kansas and Nebraska, where 
the insect was attacking '-heat and alfsZLia. In May similar damage 
extended into South Dakota. In Oregon autworras were cutting alfalfa 
and were very numerous in the wheat fields. Cutworm damage "as also 
reported from Utah and indications of an outbreak of the r, estern army 
cutworm in southwestern Saskatchewan and southern Alberta r 'ere reported 
early in the season. By the first of June it was evident that cutworm 
injury was not so prevalent as during the last t m o years over the 
entire country, the damage being confined to restricted areas. During 
June, however, cutworms '"ere very troublesome in the entire Mississippi 
River Valley and Great Flains States, In Mississippi Delta these 
insects caused considerable damage on the lands which had been flooded 
early in the season. Cutworm injury continued in the flooded areas 
of Mississippi, and at several points in Indiana and Nebraska , through 
July, 
