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A CRAITE FLY ( Tipula graninivora Alex.) 
California. The crane fly which was .reported in the Insect Pest Survey 
Bulletin, April, 1934, page 41, has been determined by C- T. Greene as 
T. graminivora . 
A. E. Michelbacher (March 30): To-day I examined the field in which the 
tipulid injury occurred. I found the adults present in great abundance. 
An examination of the aoil showed that most of the larvae had pupated. 
CORN 
CORN EAR WORM ( Hello this obsoleta Fab . ) 
Florida. J. R. Watson (April 2?): The corn ear worm is scarce. It is be- 
ginning to occur in corn in central and 'southern Florida. 
Louisiana. W. E. Hinds (April 27): The corn ear worm is scarce in Louisiana, 
generally, or unusually late in southern Louisiana. 
Texas. S. W. Clark (April 24): The corn ear worm is moderately abundant at 
Edinburg and Weslaco. 
ALFALFA 
PEA APHID ( lllinoia -?isi Kalt.) 
Indiana. J. J. Davis (April 20): Reported as very abundant r.nd apparently 
seriously damaging alfalfa at Bloomfield. 
Iowa. C. J. Drake (April 30): The pea aphid is very abundant in the 
southern part of the State. We have received complaints from Fremont and 
Lee Counties and indirect reports from other counties. The County Agent 
of Lee County reported that 90 percent of a, 25-acre field of alfalfa at 
Donnellson, had been destroyed. 
Missouri. L. Haseman (April 24): The pea aphid has been very abundant for 
the past three weeks in the western half of the State, from Joplin to the 
Iowa line, where it has killed some alfalfa. It is scarce in the central 
and eastern part of the State 
Mississippi. J. P. Kislanko (April 19): English peas are heavily infested 
in Jones County. 
Nebraska. M. H. Swenk (April 15): The pea aphid was reported attacking 
alfalfa in Pawnee County the second week in April. 
Kansas. H. R. Bryson (April 23): The pea aphid has become very abundant and 
injurious in almost every section of the State where alfalfa is grown. 
The continued dry, cool weather has retarded the alfalfa and has proved 
advantageous to the aphid and disadvantageous to the pararites and 
predators. The outbreak is probably the most widespread and injurious 
of any since 1921. Reports of injury have been received from 20 locali- 
ties and 19 counties, in the northeastern part of the State, extending 
in a line from Decatur County in the northwestern part, southeastward 
to Cowley County. 
