REPORT OF ENTOMOLOGIST. 7 
ment. The females taken in the fall have, almost without excep¬ 
tion, contained fully formed ova. Neither have I ever known the 
fall brood to be noticeably adnndant, only occasional specimens 
being taken. 
x\bont the first of May there were several newspapers of the 
State reporting the presence of some kind of army worm in mil¬ 
lions in different localities. On April 31 I went to P A ort Morgan 
where extensive injuries from such an insect were reported. In 
company with Senator W. A. Drake, several farms were visited 
and the injuries of the worm noted. In one instance the Chapman 
brothers had sowed alfalfa seed in the spring of 1902 and secured a 
good stand and then the alfalfa suddenly disappeared, from some 
unknown cause,for a distance of four or five rods along the border 
of the field adjoining wild land. The strip was re-seeded May 28 
and a good stand secured which grew thriftily throughout the sum¬ 
mer. The past spring alfalfa in this field made a good start again 
and at the time of my visit it was rapidly disappearing. An ex¬ 
amination showed the cause to be cutworms. 
Another field of the previous year’s seeding belonged to Mr. 
Burnett and seemed to be perfectly bare, but on examination the 
little alfalfa stocks could be seen everywhere, but the leaves and 
tender new shoots had all been eaten down by the worms. 
O11 Senator Drake’s farm a large field of virgin soil had been 
plowed and sowed to barley early in the spring. The barley came 
up nicely all over the field and then suddenly disappeared. To 
one driving past this field there was no evidence that there had 
been a green thing growing there a few 7 days before. I went into 
the field and could not find a single spear of barley but upon dig¬ 
ging down from one to tw r o inches conld find the stubs of the young 
plants and the worms. The senator told me later that the barley 
did not appear again so that the fields had to be replanted. 
Other fields were visited and it soon became evident that there 
were tv 7 o types of injuries. In some cases the fields of grain and 
alfalfa w 7 ere attacked about the borders only, while in others the 
injuries seemed equally distributed throughout the field. A little 
inquiry revealed the fact that in all cases where the virgin soil had 
been plowed in the spring and seeded the injuries were distributed 
throughout the field, but where the virgin soil had been plowed 
the previous fall or summer, the cutworm injuries were only no¬ 
ticed about the borders of the fields and only those borders that 
were adjacent to wild land. Fort Morgan is in a grazing region 
and the ground is pretty well covered with a mixture of gramma 
and buffalo grasses which are evidently among the native food 
plants of this cutworm, in fact the worms were found feeding upon 
these grasses. 
