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CEREAL AND FORAGE INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
W. R. Walton, Acting in Charge. 


























ae H. Gibson, recently in charge of the Laboratory of Missouri, has been re- 
id and will be stationed at Washington, D. C., for the present. 
Dr. Henry Fox of the Charlottesville, Va., hapreecrs force has been trans- 
red to the Southern Field Crop Investigations and will be stationed at Clarks- 
le, Tenn., after October 1, 
ot has been decided to transfer the laboratory now located at Pasadena, Cal., 
rtinez, Cal., about November 1. 
Prof. H. F. Wickham, who has been temporarily attached to the Wellington, - 
is.<, Laboratory, has returned to his home at Iowa City to take up his regular 
ork at the University. 
NEWS ITEMS FROM THE TEMPE (ARIZ.) FIELD STATION. 
B September 21, 1916. 
:. ‘The fall army worm, Laphigma frugiperda, has been exceptionally numerous 
F “ing the past month doing considerable damage to corn. 
The most notable recent damage caused by insects in Southern Arizona was that 
the alfalfa caterpillar, Eurymus eurytheme. The worms were especially. numer- 
oa and had it not been for a contagious disease which finally brought it under 
ntrol, the damage-would have been much more severe than it was. Irrigation ef 
rtain fields proved at this time to be an almost certain check upon the outbreak, 
n C8 the added moisture was conducive to the further development of the disease, 
16 the worms died within a few days after the water was applied. 
(Signed) V. L. Wildermuth. 
NEWS ITEMS FROM MAXWELL (N. M.) FIELD STATION. 
September 23, 1916. 
smi leuca Oliviae - Ninety-five percent of species now in the pupal stage. 
kunks are destroying a large percentage of the pupse originally present. 
sntatoma Sayi-— Very rare in localities where it was formerly a serious pest. 
few large nymphs and adults found during the past month. . 
sasshoppers ~ Are not numerous enough to be considered a pest, in localities where 
ey were very destructive at this date last year. 
sliothis obsoleta - Very numerous in all varieties of field corn, and causing 
asiderable loss. 
Pics 12Z-punctata var, tenelilales not numerous seoiet on corn to cause 
Dpréciable damage, as was the case last year. 
& (Signed) D. J. Caffrey. 
§ NEWS ITEMS FROM THE GAINESVILLE (FLA.) FIELD STATION. 
Sept. 23, ILé. 
The velvet bean caterpillar has damaged thousands of acres of velvet beans 
gring the past month, and little effort has been made by the farmers to control it. 
he so called “cholera” (Botrytis rileyi), is now becoming effective in the field 
hd will probably kill 90 to 95 per cent of the caterpillars, as it does about this 
ime each year. 
_ The appointment of George R. Bailey, who has been temporary assistant at this 
tation since June 1, expired on August 31. 
An outbreak of Elasmopsipus lignosellus has just occurred on cowpeas on 
