In some sections of Lee county for several weeks worms have been sweeping the forests, attacking the foliage of oaks and other trees. In some sections they have literally stripped the trees of all their leaves and some of them are bare as in winter. This is a striped worm larger than the army worm and is thought to be a species of the army worm. We have heard of no damage by them to crops. There were a few in the county last year, but they appeared earlier in the season. They appeared about the first of June this year and the farmers report that in some sections they are now disappearing. A bug of the ground beetle family has appeared and is destroying these worms. Farmers are advised to watch the crops and if they are attacked by them to report the matter to the North Carolina Department of Agriculture, Raleigh. In some parts of the county the water in the branches and creeks has turned almost black by the worms falling in and discoloring it.
--Sanford Express
From the Sanford Express, as reprinted in The Western Sentinel, Winston-Salem, N.C., August 8, 1922
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