CEREAL AND FORAGE- CROP INSECTS 
1 ^SMSM L PEEPERS 
CUTWORMS (Noctuidae) 
Massachusetts A* I. Bourne (June 23): Cutworms are still doing some damage 
on the Cape, there they are mich more destructive on truck 
crops than usual this season. 
Michigan 
Wisconsin 
South Dakota 
Nebraska 
Idaho 
R.H.Pettit (May 28): I received today some specimens of cutworms 
from Benzie County, in the northwestern part of the Lower 
Peninsula, with statement that fifty-two were taken from around 
one sweet-clover root which was plowed up in making ready 
for a cornfield. Last year the same kind of cutworm seemed to 
he attacking the roots of sweet clover. 
S.B.Fracker (June 15): Moderate damage reported to corn, 
tomatoes, ana other crops in Rock, Dane, Grant, Vernon, Pepin, 
Monroe, Wood, Portage, and Lincoln Counties. Reported ahsent 
in Burnett County up to May 15 at least. 
A.L. Ford and H.C.Severin (June 8): Cutworms are seriously 
damaging young corn in many places in the southeastern part 
of the State. Many farmers have been forced to replant. In 
no case has there been injury to corn on fall-plowed land, 
M.H.Swenk (May' 15- June 15): Cutworms , despite the cool, wet 
spring over most of the State, have not been normally abundant 
or destructive. During the third week in May, however, heavy 
flights of the moths of the western army cutworm (Euxoa 
auxil j.aris N , . resulting from an abundance of its cutworms the 
preceding month, was taking place in Arthur County. 
Don B. Whelan (May 2k) : Cut-."orms ate all green growth on 5 
acres of alfalfa at Blackfoot. Control was obtained by the 
use of poisoned-bran mash. 
W IRE^ORMS ( Elat er idae ) 
Ohio F» W. Poos (June 7): ^e have noticed Limonius sp. occasionally 
on our experimental plot at Sandusky this year, but to date no 
damage to the corn is apparent. 
Indiana J. J. Davis (June 19): Report of injury to corn at Reynolds on 
June 15, also report on June l6 at Columbus. 
Illinois W. P. Flint (June 19): Unknown species of wireworms have beai 
abundant and destructive. Several counties in the central part 
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