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ALEALEA WEBWORM (Lbxostege commix talis Walk. ) 
G. M. List (May 24): The moths of what is known locally as 
the alfalfa webworn, have been very numerous this spring. They 
first made their appearance about the first of May and are still 
so numerous that many reports from motorists likened it to driving 
through a snow storm. The stores were reported to have closed 
in one town because of the large numbers being attracted to 
lights. The larvae are beginning to do considerable damage to 
alfalfa. Some new plantings are badly damaged at this early 
date and eggs are quite numerous on a variety of plants. 
C. L. Corkins (May 17): In fifteen years of experience in 
this region I have never seen the moths of the sugar beet web- 
worm so abundant and so generally distributed as they are this 
year. They are simply everywhere in swarms over the eastern 
section of Wyoming. 
SUGAR CAITE 
SUGARCAFE BORER ( Diatraea saccbarali s Eab. ) 
W. E. Hinds (May 26): The borer is abundant in some fields of 
most advanced corn especially in south Louisiana. The first 
generation began pupation about May 20. Infestation is some- 
what lighter and development somewhat less advanced in Baton 
Rouge area. Borer egg parasitization by Trichogramma found 
first in garden corn in extreme south Louisiana at Bayou Salle 
on May 14, but natural parasitization in first generation eggs 
is extremely light, as usual. 
SUGARCALTS SEATTLE ( Euetheola ru^iceps Lec.) 
W. A. Douglas (April 28): The sugarcane beetle is very abun- 
dant in rice fields which have not been flooded. The average 
amount of injury was 21.5 per cent. 
J. W. Ingram and E. K. Bynum (May 1'.): Injury to sugarcane 
showed a marked increase during the month; it was heaviest in 
the section around Franklin. In one field of plant cane 15 per 
cent of the shoots had been killed on April 11. Another dead- 
shoot count was made in this field on the 28th. It was found that 
21 per cent of the remaining shoots had been killed. 
W. E. Hinds (May 26): Damage to corn and cane has been re- 
ported ?„s unusually severe and in many cases complaints have come 
from points entirely outside of the sugarcane belt. Rice has 
suffered also in some localities. Oviposition appears now to be 
about completed and adults are dying off. In northern Louisiana 
the damage has been inflicted in low moist areas especially, not 
on hills. 
E. L. Thomas (May 1): Abundant on corn at Westfield. 
