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COPN EARWORM ( Heliothis obsoleta Fab.) 
L. H. Patch (September 30) . "The corn earworm is doing consider- 
able damage throughout Barnstable County. One quarter-acre field 
of sweet corn at Chatham showed 100 per cent infestation, twenty 
stalks averaging 5 worms to the stalk, including ears with a 
maximum of 13 *" 
B. H. Waldon (October 18-21). "The abundance of this pest about 
Botsford and Hamden is less than last year, 12 per cent of the crop 
being damaged." 
C. C. Hamilton (September 26). "This insect is reported as attack- 
ing lima beans at places around Cambridge, Md., eating holes into 
bean pods and beans inside the pods. Twenty- two per cent of the 
crop has been damaged. No eggs, pupae, or adults were noticed 
but larvae were common. One badly infested field was bordered 
on two sides by field corn, but dusting would probably do little 
or no good. It is intended to try poisoned bran mash." 
C. N. Ainslie (October ll) . "While the injury from the corn ear- 
worm has been only moderately great during the past season, the 
moths have been attracted to lights recently in large numbers, 
showing that the pest is still actively present." 
F.C. Bishopp (October 28). "This insect is somewhat more destruc- 
tive this year than usual. A number of fields examined in Dallas 
County showed practically 100 per cent infestation of the ears in 
every instance." 
Claude Wakeland (October 19) . "The ccrn earworm has been a serious 
pest to field and sugar corn in Cassia and Twin Falls Counties 
this year." 
A STALK-BORER ( Diatraea lineolata Walk.) 
J. R. Horton (October 16). "Abundance of this pest was more 
than usual over eastern New Mexico from August 15 to September 
30. From 20 to 100 per cent of the crop was infested from 
Romero, Tex,, southwesterly through Tucumcari to Santa Rosa, 
thence north to Las Vegas and southward from Tucumcari to 
Port ales. Milo and red amber sorghum were found injured to the 
extent of about 6 to 7 per cent.. The weather was exceptionally 
hot and dry." 
FALL ARMYWORM ( Laphvgma fruginerda S . & A.) 
J. J. Davis (October 20) . "The fall armyworm was abundant, attack- 
ing corn at Aurora, Ind., October 3. This is the only report 
accompanied by specimens or reliable data." 
