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Pennsylvania 
California 
SOD WEBWOEMS (Crarbus spio. ) 
H. E. Hodgkiss (February 25): There has been some activity 
during the winter; adults of sod webworms, species not 
ascertained, have been flying during the warmer periods, 
indicating an unusual condition. 
RANGE CRAKE ELY ( Tioula simplex Doane) 
E. 0. Essig (February 15): The range crane f ly, T. simplex , 
and other species are abundant in pasture lands in central 
California. 
SUGARCAES 
SUGAECAITE SORER ( Diatraea sac char alls Eab. ) 
Louisiana T. E. Holloway and W. S. Haley (January 29): The extremely 
mild winter, with a minimum temperature of 42° E. in Hew 
Orleans up to this time, has resulted in unusual conditions. 
Sugarcane is 3 feet tall. The sugarcane borer is not 
hibernating, but larvae having the summer coloration are to 
be found in the corn and sugarcane plants. Pupae and large 
larvae were found in corn, but larvae in sugarcane are in the 
general not so far advanced. (Feb ruas^rsL 7): The fir.? t genoration of/ 
year is now beginning. This is nearly three months earlier 
than normal. Egg clusters are to be found in the fields. 
Large larvae and pupae are -plentiful. Sugarcane has remained 
green all winter, and some which was planted last August has 
already reached a height of from 5 to 6 feet. 
W. A. Douglas (January 27); I collected and examined 400 
rice stubs between January 18 and 22 to ascertain the percentage 
of hibernating larvae alive. In the 400 stubs I found 12 
larvae, all alive. 
J. W. Ingram and E. K. Bynum (January 29): Examinations 
were made -t'6 determine the number of live borer stages in 
sugarcane and volunteer corn during the latter part of the 
month. On a plantaion near Houma it was estimated that 
volunteer Corn contained 781 larvae and 166 pupae per acre 
as compared with 3,049 larvae and 363 pupao in C. P. 807 
sugarcane and 435 larvae and 290 pupae in Co. 281 sugarcane. 
E. E. Bynum ''February 19): First-generation borers were 
found today feeding in the tops of several young shoots of 
sugarcane. 
