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infested area in New York State has increased 300 per cent in intensity over 
the population records of 1924. The total area found to be infested by it 
has during the season almost doubled and now extends westward to Berrien 
County, Mich. ,and Noble County, Ind. One corn borer was found just over 
the Indiana- Illinois line in Kankakee County, 111. 
The fall armyworm ( Laphygma frugiperda S. & A.) was more or less destructive 
throughout the season* Reports of heavy damage have been received from South 
Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi, and southern Louisiana, 
The corn ear worm ( Heliothis obsoleta Fab.) was decidedly troublesome over 
the greater part of the country. Exceptional damage has been reported from 
North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, 
Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri. Corn suffered the major damage, as usual, 
but in the peach belt of Georgia the entire crop of peaches on a 4, 000- tree 
plantation was destroyed* 
Slight and unimportant outbreaks of the armyworm ( Cirphis unfepuncta Haw.) 
were recorded from the East-Central States. 
The sugarcane beetle ( Euetheola rugiceps Lee. ) was so serious in the Gulf 
region that in many cases replanting of corn was necessary, and in 1926 it 
appeared for the first time as a serious porn pest in Illinois. 
The grape colaspis ( Colaspis brunnea Fab,) was an unusually serious sneray 
of corn in the East-Central States. 
The stalk borer ( Papai-oema nitela Caen. ) was one of the outstanding 
pests of the year in the region extending from Ohio through Indiana and Illinois, 
westward to Nebraska and Iowa, and southwestward into Missouri and Kansas. 
The alfalfa weevil ( Phytonomus posticus Gyll.) has been found in Goshen 
and Carbon Counties, T7yo., near the Nebraska State Line, and in four additional 
counties in Colorado. 
The joint worm ( iformolita tritici Fitch) was reported for the first time 
as serious in the Pacific Northwest, an area about 12 miles square in Clackamas 
and Marion Counties, Ore. , being very heavily infested. Inasmuch as stubble 
from this general region has been examined for the past 8 years in connection 
with Hessian fly work, this insect is undoubtedly new to this particular 
region. 
The season seems to have favored unusual northern extension of the range 
of a number of important pests. The sugar-cane beetle and the green bug have 
been mentioned. The southern corn stalk borer (Diatraea z eacolella Pyar) 
occurred in serious numbers in a restricted region about Racine, Wis. 
The wheat stem sawfly ( Cephus pvgmaeus L. ) infested from 1 to 50 per 
cent of the wheat throughout southwestern Manitoba and southcentral Alberta, 
and has caused utnKia&lly heavy damage in southern Saskatchewan. 
FRUIT INSECTS 
One of the most striking features in connection with insects affecting 
