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of alfalfa that were infested by grasshoppers in 1933 are in the 
process of cultivation—some being plowed and some disked. It is 
believed that the eggs of grasshoppers contained in this land will 
be destroyed by such cultivation, decreasing the infestation in 1934. 
The infested area near Sacramento is now approximately 200 acres. 
Tomato fields a source of corn ear worm.—--W. B. Cartwright re- 
ports that during the fall months large commercial tomato fields at 
Sacramento carried an infestation of corn ear worms. When frost oc- 
curred the mature larvee entered the ground and pupated.. This source 
of infestation, together with alfalfa fields, is suspected of giving 
rise to the brood of adults that appear here in April and May. 
Lesser corn stalk borer attacks strins beans and lespedeza.-- 
Geo. W. Barber, Savannah, Ga., reports that during the summer and 
fall of 1933 injurious infestations and apparently new habits -of 
Klasmopalpus lignosellus Zell. were observed. In the vicinity of 
Savannah the larvae destroyed successive plantings of string beans 
from about June 23 until August 15. In this case the larvae as- 
sumed a distinctive boring habit. Entering the stalks of the young 
plants where they bore from two to four leaves, the larvae bored up- 
ward and downward, hollowing out the stalk and killing the plants. 
In the case of larger plants with harder stems they fed, protected 
-by a web, at or a little below the surface vf the suil, girdling 
the plants... The second instance of outbreak by this insect occurred 
in Washington County, Ga., where it was found sericusly injuring the 
forage plant Lespedeze sericea. This apparently was a new food- 
-plant. record for this insect. At the tine of ebservation, Seotember, 
the stalks of this plant were quite woody. The larvae lay in webs 
just below the surface of the soil and fed completely around each 
stalk, girdling and destroying the plants. The plants first gave 
evidence of attack by showing yellow foliage. Feeding had apparently 
occurred throughout the summer, causing a progressive thinning of the 
planting, until at the time of observation about 25 percent of the 
Stand had been destroyed. These observations suggested that this in- 
sect might become an important enemy of lesvedeza, and might present 
a difficult problem in control. 
