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CORN EAR WORM ( Heliothis obsoleta Eab. ) 
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Utah. H. L. Blood (1936): The tomato fruit worm has "been exceedingly 
abundant and troublesome for the past 2 years- This insect has "been 
held responsible for a 10 percent reduction in tona*o production, 
resulting in a loss of approximately $U04,000. This figure is not 
representative of the total loss suffered "by the industry from the 
abundance of the worm. An increase in production costs, with a proportion- 
ate reduction in the net income of the processors, would not be reflected 
in the reduction in total value of the crop to the industry on a produc- 
tion basis and, consequently, such a loss would necessarily augment the 
production losses from the ravages of the insect. Under the Federal 
Eood and Drugs Act, filthy or decayed products are prohibited, and 
tomato products containing worms or worm fragments come within this 
restriction. In order to- comply with this requirement the processors 
have had to adopt a more careful sorting and trimming than had previously 
been employed. Meeting this requirement has added a cost estimated at 
$85,000 and increased the loss to the State resulting from the fruit 
worm to approximately 5^95,000, or about 20 percent of the total loss 
to the industry in Utah from diseases and other causes. 
California. J. C. Elmore (April 2-7): A survey of tomato fields at El 
Centro, Brawley, Westmoreland, and Niland failed to locate any corn 
ear worms on tomato. Near Santa Ana on April 9> seven moths were 
collected at lights between S and 9 £•'*&• They laid eggs under outdoor 
conditions at Alhambra. 
BEET ARMYWORM ( Lg phygma exigua Hbn.) 
California. J. C. Elmore (April 2): Beet armyworm is common on tomato 
vines near Niland, attacking foliage and fruit, but losses are not 
unusually heavy. 
TOMATO PINWORM ( Gnorimo schema lycopersicella Busck) 
Virginia. H. C. Walker (April 21): The tomato pinworm was rather abundant 
late last summer in a greenhouse near Norfolk where late fall and early 
spring crops of tomatoes were being grown. As a result, a fall crop of 
tomatoes was not planted last year, and so far no evidence of pinworms 
has appeared in the spring crop, which was planted in January. 
California. J. C. Elmore (April 7): Tomato fields which have survived the 
winter in the early tomato growing areas near Santa Ana, Orange County, 
are very heavily infested. There are hundreds of larvae per plant. New 
fields near the old ones are already heavily infested. 
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MEXICAN BEAN BEETLE ( Epilachna varivestis Muls.) 
Ohio. N. E. Howard (April 3): Survival of the Mexican bean beetle at Columbus 
remains between 2 and 3 percent, as reported a month ago. 
