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of the State report 5 "to 10 per cent of the cornfields damaged. 
Individual fields where actual counts were taken show 5 to 50 
per cent of the corn killed. 
Stewart Lockwood (June 1): A farmer at Roberts sent in some 
larvae he found destroying his field of wheat. He said that 
a large part of the field was destroyed, 
Claude Wlkeland (May 26): Adults are numerous at this time in 
the southwestern part of the State and females are ovipositing 
freely. This pest is becoming increasingly abundant from year 
to year and gradually spreading to irrigated land that has 
remained more or less free for years. It is impossible to raise 
corn or potatoes in certain restricted localities. Wireworras 
are a pest of major importance to growers of potatoes, lettuce, 
and corn, 
M. C. Lane (June U) : Under separate cover I am sending by this 
mail a package containing five larvae of the genus Pheletes 
collected by me at Toppenish, Wash., June 1. These larvae are from 
the same nursery as those reported by Mr» Newcomer about May 17 
and are without doubt the wireworm that is doing the damage. 
My own observations and collections lead me to believe that this 
is the wireworm that is doing all the damage to crops under 
irrigation in the Yakima Valley and several other irrigated sections 
in the State besides. The damage in the nursery was mostly 
in blocks of seedlings on land that had been in potatoes for 
several years previous. I will also include a mounted specimen 
sent me by Mr t Newcomer ( Pheletes occidentalis Cand. ) which he 
states was picked up dead in the nursery where the larvae were 
found. It may or may not be the adult responsible, but I wish 
to have this adult determined and returned to me for future 
comparison. In outdoor cages here I have several larvae of the 
same lot as those being sent, and hope to procure adults before the 
summer is over. If I succeed I will send the adults in for 
determination also. 
GRASSHOPPERS (Acridiidffi et al.) 
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S, B« Fracker (June 15) : Grasshoppers, most /Melanoplus atlanis 
are slightly worse than last year at this date in Oneida, Florence, 
aand Forest Counties. Not as bad in Price County. In pastures 
only so far. Reported present in Vernon County by County Agent, 
R, L. Webster (June 12): Some rye fields in McHenry and Bsttineau 
Counties are reported as having been plowed under because of damage 
by young hoppers. They .are increasing in numbers. 
A. L, Kord and H. C. Severin (June 8): According to the numbers of 
eggs hatching during the last of May, trouble from Melanoplus 
bivittatus Say, is expected in the alfalfa seed-growing.isection, 
Fall River, Custer, Pennington, Meade, Butte, and possibly some in 
