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o. H. Gable (April 30): 3-reen bugs have been plentiful in the San 
Antonio section this spring. Some fields -ere damaged as much as 
25 per cent cut infestations i re now rapidly decreasing. Last year 
as one of the driest ever known here. No crops '-/ere made, there 
was no volunteer grain, and no grass in most of the section. W. A. 
Baker reports that infestation in northern Texas has just about 
run its course and that conditions there "*ere much the same as 
here. 'The temperature deficiency from January 1,1926, to April 1, 
1926, is 35°. With the exception of 1921, this has been the ret test 
I': rch in kl years. 
PLAINS F.iLSS WIRE770RM ( Fleode s opaca Say) 
Kansas J. '.7. McColloch (April 5): False wireworms were received from Greeley 
County with the information that they were doing considerable injur y 
to wheat. 
ARMY CUTWORM ( Cho-izaerotis auxil iaris Grote) 
Kansas J* W, McColloch (April 19): Wheat has been injured in Se-ard, Clark, 
Haskell, Cloud, Kiowa, and Thomas Counties. Alfalfa has been damaged 
in Gove, Russell, Butler, and Riley Counties. 
Oklahoma C. E*. Sanborn (April 1): The cutworm has also appeared in wheat 
again this year. In addition to wheat damage, considerable alfalfa 
damage is resulting. The northwestern part of the State is infested. 
ARMYWORM ( Cirrhis uriouncta Haw. ) 
Illinois 7»'. P. Flint (Aoril 20): Adults of the true armyvorm were found in 
peach orchards in southern Illinois in large numbers during the reek 
of April 12. 'The adults were feeding on the peach blossoms at 
night. They were also in plum trees in the same district. On one 
night it was estimated that a 20-acre block of peaches had an average 
of at lea.st 12 armyworm adults per tree. 
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LEPIBOPTSECUS LARVAE (Species undetermined) 
Mexico A. W # Morrill (April 20) : An average of three or four worms to 
each stalk in the pretassel stage are present in field corn at 
Los Mochia. Apparently they are doing considerable damage but it 
will be impossible to estimate how much until the corn is older. 
EUROPEAN CORN BORER ( Pyrausta nubilalis Hubn. ) 
New York P. M. Eastman (April 29): Or, the Ulrich flats along the Mohawk 
river near Scotia where the Bureau of Plant Industry first started 
clean-up ^ork in 1519, conditions for the development of the insect 
this spring are, T believe, unusually favorable. The total acreage 
in corn planted t ■-. r is about 35 '^cr-s, 25 of which is or 
planted to sweet corn. On about, one-half of the s-cet corn acreage 
the cornstalks still remain standing. High water has covered portions 
of the fields and r P them have been broken o r f and washed t o the 
river bank end caught with ether debris in the ^eeds. After a cursory 
