TWEXTY-FIFTH EEPORT OF STATE ENTOMOLOGIST 11 



SUMMARY OF 1933 GRASSHOPPER SURVEY V.Y •-->T >' 



No. oj: counties likely to 



have serious grasshopper Acres that may Cost of bait at 



State damage in 1934. need poison S25 r^^i' *■■" 



Idaho 10 120.000 ^ 1' 



Minnesota 20 279,834 41,67G.UU 



Montana 51 3,587,316 448,400.00 



Nebraska* 10 200,000 25,000.00 



North Dakota 53 5,377.520 679,980.00 



South Dakota 68 2.667,396 320,623.00 



Wyoming 12 841,600 10.5,200.00 



Wisconsin 35 320,000 40,000.00 



Total 256 13.393,666 $1,675,879.00 



*Estimato mai: >ut survey. 



Report submitted by: 



Claude Wakeland. Idaho 

 A. G. Rujrgles, Minnesota 

 ^I. 11. S'.vt'nk, Nebraska 

 Fred D. Butcher, North Dakota 

 A. L. Ford, South Dakota 

 C. L. Corkins, Wyoming 

 E. L. Chambers, Wisconsin 

 A. L. Strand, Montana 



3 — It has been conclusively demonstrated that with proper organization and 

 financial assistance, grasshopper outbreaks can be controlled. Experience has 

 shown this to be a fact in the control of small infested areas in the past and 

 with the infestation of 1931-1933, it has been thoroughly proven in. Manitoba 

 and Minnesota. 



4 — The grasshopper menace which has been increasing and spreading in 

 the northwest for the past five years has now reached a point where it is 

 completely beyond control of the individual counties and states. The prob- 

 lem has become one of not only interstate, but international scope because 

 of the recent rise to major imiiovtance of a species of grasshopper with pro- 

 nounced migratory habits. 



The conference believes, and strongly recommends, that an extensive control 

 program, interstate in character, be inaugurated at once. It is absolutely 

 necessary that a comprehensive campaign be immediately developed in order 

 to save a large jiart of the 193-t crop. 



The grasshopper control program should be so organized that it deals 

 with the present emergency and it should abo be permanent in character in 

 order to prevent recurrence of the present situation. 



ii — (A) The conference suggests that the foHowing brief outline should 

 serve as a basis for organizing tlie emergency program. The U. S. Bureau 

 of Entomology, and state grasshopper control committees, shou.d be charged 

 with the responsibility of the direction of the campaign, including allocation 

 of funds to the different states, methods of state, county and township or- 



