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WHITE GRUBS ( Phyllophaga sp.) 
3. 11. Cory (May 17): White grubs are very abundant. 
W. H. Clark (April 25): County Agent Webb reported considerable 
foliage injury to pecans at Talbotton by beetles. 
0. I. Snapp (May 11): Adults were observed feeding during the 
day on the roots of carrots, where they had gotten under the soil 
for hiding and protection. They had ruined a plot of that vege- 
table at Port Valley. 
J. S. Houser (May 26); A heavy flight of May beetles is taking 
place at Wooster. The insects are much more abundant than in 1931, 
J. H. Bigger (May): Wnite grabs are very abundant in western 
Illinois. There were heavy flights of adults on the evenings 
of May 6 and 7. 
A. G. Rurgles and assistants (May): White grubs were reported 
as unusually abundant and in very large numbers from Houston and 
Cottonwood. Heavy flights started in the southern part of the 
State the latter part of April and in the vicinity of St. Paul 
during the first week in May. (Abstract, J.A.H. ) 
C. 11. Ainslie (May 26): These beetles are actively feeding 
on the leaves of shade trees and garden shrubs, doing serious 
injury in some cases. There is as yet very little complaint 
of white grub damage. 
W. L. Gray (May 21): May beetles were causing considerable 
injury to pecan trees in Natchez on April 27. 
H. L. Dozler (May 2) : During the wee 1 -: of April 16 to 23 a 
large plot of newly plowed ground in ITew Orleans showed con- 
si dcr?ble numbers in the larval and pupal stages. Newly 
issued adults wore also flying in limited numbers at the time. 
H. B. Hungerford (May 3); Wnite grubs are very abundant. 
Adults are unusually abundant at Lawrence. 
WIRESFOEMS ( Slat er i dae ) 
C. A. Thomas (May 20): Wircworms ( Limoniu s agonus Say and 
Melanotus sp. ) have already caused, some damaec to potato seed 
pieces in Bucks and Chester Counties. The cool wot weather 
of the first half of I'siy has been particularly favorable to 
them. The adults were found mating in large groups on May 20. 
