California. R. E. Campbell (August 2): A quotation from the July 31 issue of 
the California Cooperative Crop Reporting Service soys: "The 3,ate onion 
crop in the Delta Section is very spotted. Thrips has been particularly 
had on the later plantings and it is doubtful \7hether some of the acreage 
will warrant harvesting at present prices, because of the snail size of 
the onions." 
ONION MAGGOT ( Hylemyia ant i qua Meig.) 
New York. N. Y. State Coll. Agr, News Letter (June 28): In Saratoga County 
rather heavy loss has been experienced for the first tine in sevaral 
years. Onion naggots on bunch onions are nore serious than usual in 
Monroe County. 
Idaho. J. R. Douglass (July 15) J Have recieved nunerous complaints about 
onion naggots destroying stands of onions in Twin Falls. 
YELLOW-NECKED. CATERPILLAR ( Dataiia ninistra Drury) 
New York. N. Y. State Coll. Agr. News Letter (June 2S): In Wayne County the 
yellow-necked datana worms were found feeding on onions in several places 
in one field. 
SWEET CORN 
CORN EAR WORM ( Heliothis obsoleta P.) 
Connecticut. N. Turner (July 21): About 5 percent of the extra early corn 
in southern Connecticut was infested. Larvae have already left the corn. 
New York. N. Y, State Coll. Agr. News Letter (July 26): In Nassau County there 
is t an unusually heavy infestation in all varieties of sweet corn. (August 
2): In Westchester County this post. is causing considerable trouble and 
damage to sweet corn. Granite Springs and Yorktown have about 1,250 acres 
about 1 quarter of which is infested. 
Virginia. G. E. Matheny (August 2): Serious ear damage being caused by larvae 
in most plantings of sweet corn at Roanoke. (July 20): At Wytheville 
the pest is severe in somas fields. Both sweet and field corn are being 
attacked, mostly at growing tips, base of tassel, and stalk. 
A. M. Woodside (July 21): At Staunton the corn ear worm has been 
numerous on beans. 
Georgia. T. L. Bis sell. (July l): Very bad in sweet corn at the Experiment 
Station, Not yet in tomatoes in adjoining fields. 
Indiana. E. V. Walter (July l6): Eggs are present on about a third of the 
ears of early sweet corn at Lafayette. Most first-brood larvae hove 
matured. and left the cars. 
Alabama. J. M. Robinson (July 21): Adults ore depositing eggs on late corn* 
