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Pree in charge of the Marylend field 
station, reports under 
a de injury to re od clover ty 
Gate of Mey 4, co 
ve the clover leat weevil 
Phytonomus punctat Ti Z 
Bs tive ae 16 in Ronateat is espsecxzally severe on the farm o? Mr. 
- _.. at Smit burg, Md. The larvae were fee ding voraciously on leaves 
Brad 3 ot os veloping crowns and were also found in large numbers 
liding uncer debris and mulch on the ground surface, Adults were also present 
Mir @ We B > ue 4 Ag no > ‘es aad +5 i 
u Turner ting in Charge of the Maryland field laboratory, 
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ail uay © reports aadbusinty Lacinosterna had already issued in large 
& species were Lachnosterna fusca and Lachnosterna 
arcuata, 
| Mr. A. F. Satterthwait, in cha rge of the Missouri field station, under 
Gate of April 30 states ti} rat Harmolita adults were issuing freely on that date 
— ee ek cE rostrate ee a unplowed ground and 
€ of plowed ground. Mr. Satterthwait also 
reports, under date of May 9, a heavy Harmolita infestation in the general 
‘vicinity of Mountain Grove, Mo. 
Mr. R, A. Vickery, in charge of the Texas field ste ation, reports, under 
date of May 1 that Lachnosterna adults are doing extensive damage in the vicin-= 
moy of Sen Antonio to gardens and to cotton. He elso reports Laphygma 
destroying forage crops in Hidalgo county near Brownsville, Texas, Reports 
from this, as well as several other portions of the country, indicated that 
wheat bran will be very difficult and expensive to obtain this season in 
connection with ee control measures, Mr. Vickery also reports, under 
pcate of May 10, that Lachnosterna cribosa has destroyed considerable acreags 
of cotton, and has wrought sn te tO pe aes near San Antonio, He has found 
at possible to control this species with poison bran mash, Mr. T. §. Wilson 
of the Texas station, while investigating the insect se ie aes in Hidalgo 
county during the first week in May, found larvae of Heliothus obsoleta very 
mumerous feeding on young corn plants, cotton, alfalfa, bean po ae. leaves of 
on 
o rs 
pyoung oravge tree and other plants in accordance with their we aes 
Somnivorous ices ” Many eéges were found on corn silks and some larvae in corn 
Sears at Brownsville, Texas. He also found larvae of Laphygma orien doing 
considerable damage to corn near Hdinburgh, Texas. Loxostege similalis had 
also wrought much injury to young cotton in a few fields where Amaranthus was 
permitted to grow. It is noteworthy that fields unir era with weeds wer 
Memaged little if any. A few larvae were Rig t on the young corn also. 
During the first week in May there were comparatively ie larvae, but adults 
were present in large numbers, indicating that os generation was at that time 
Berancipally in the adult stage. 
Mr. A. H. Beyer, of the South Carolina field station, under date of May 
20, advises a high percentage of injury by Diabrotica this year in western 
Florida and South Georgia. Prodenia ornithogaili larvae are seriousl 
Bdefoliating corn over an area extending from South Carolina into Florida, 
"MDiatraesa saccharalis was also found by him in considerable numbers in the 
®arly plantings in Florida, 
Mr. C. W. Creel, in charge of the Oregon station, under date of May 3, re- 
Morts as follows: "The Hessian fly is appar ently present in all spring wagat 
mields as far south as apenas Oregon, the infestation varying from 1% to 
20% in fields examined, At the present time the princ ipal insect injury to 
cereal and forage crops in the Willamette Valley is being caused by 
Macrosiphum pisi, this aphid causing great damage to vetch and apparently has 
