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and Webster Counties; nymphs ranged 30-40 per square yard. Occasional adults of 

 Melanoplus bivi tta tus and M. sanguinipes observed. Surveys conducted on Mean 

 Animal Research Center, Clay County, indicated no economic populations. (Bell, 

 Hohnholt) . MISSOURI - Grasshoppers ranged 16-40 per sweep in field margins and 

 4-31 throughout pastures in northeast area. (Munson) . KANSAS - Phlibostroma 

 quadrimacula turn nymphs very heavy in 30-acre weedy pasture in Comanche County. 

 (Bell) . OKLAHOMA - Grasshoppers moderate to heavy on rangeland in Pontotoc, 

 Murray, Carter, Atoka, Pottawatomie, Oklahoma, and Cimarron Counties. Moderate 

 to heavy in alfalfa or crop margins in Pontotoc, Carter, Marshall, 

 Pottawatomie, Lincoln, Cleveland, and Atoka Counties. Damage to home gardens 

 reported in Atoka, Carter, Pottawatomie, Lincoln, and Osage Counties. (Okla. 

 Coop. Sur.). COLORADO - Primarily Cordillacris sp. and Aulocara sp. infesting 

 about 100,000 acres of rangeland in Otero, Bent, and Las Animas Counties; 

 ranged 25-50 per square yard. Range condition poor due to grasshoppers and 

 drought. Migration into irrigated crops possible. No controls planned. (Watson). 

 NEVADA - C. pellucida , M. bivi ttatus , and M. sanguinipes , mostly nymphs, ranged 

 15-20 per square yard on 2,000 acres of hay in Kings River Valley, Humboldt 

 County. (Peters). M. sanguinipes adults and nymphs ranged 15-30 in alfalfa 

 hayfields in Diamond Valley , Eureka County, treatments applied or planned. 

 (Hampton). M. bivi tta tus , mostly nymphs, averaged 10 per square yard on 2,000 

 acres of alfalfa hay at Orovada , Humboldt County. M. bivi tta tus and M. 

 sanguinipes ranged 5-10 per square yard in several alfalfa fields in Kings River 

 Valley. M. sanguipes adults and nymphs ranged 5-60 per square yard in weedy and 

 abandoned fields comprising several sections in Diamond Valley. (Hampton). M. 

 sanguinipes and M. bivi ttatus , mostly nymphs, ranged 10-150 per square yard on 

 1,920 acres of rangeland and abandoned fields in Kings River Valley. Ranged 1-30 

 per square yard in other areas; hatch continues. (Hiibig, Peters). WASHINGTON - 

 Fourth and fifth instars of Oedaleonotus enigma and Aulocara elliotti ranged 

 12-75 per square yard in 2,880 acres of rangeland at White Swan, Yakima County; 

 severely damaged rangeland and adjoining cropland. (Jackson). Amphitornus 

 coloradus and Aulocara elliotti damaging rangeland near Goose Lake; ranged 

 20-30 per square yard on about 5,000 acres. First and second instars of Camnula 

 pellucida 75-100 per square yard, damaging 3,000 acres of pastureland near 

 Havillah, Okanogan County. (Nonini) . 



GYPSY MOTH ( Porthetria dispar ) - VERMONT - Common on home fruit tree plantings. 

 (Nielsen, June 29) . PENNSYLVANIA - Pupation observed in Monroe County June 23. 

 (Cameron). Aerially dispersed 14,000 d ispar lure-bai ted traps over 9-square-mile 

 area surrounding known infestation in Somerset County; this follows earlier 

 treatment of 180 acres. (Eckess) . 



JAPANESE BEETLE ( Popillia japonica ) - DELAWARE - First adults found on variety 

 of plants June 26 in New Castle County. (Burbutis, Lesiewicz) . MARYLAND - Adult 

 emergence heavy in several areas in Harford, Prince Georges, and Charles 

 Counties. Statewide beetle emergence light to date. (U. Md . , Ent. Dept.). WEST 

 VIRGINIA - First adults observed June 12 in Kanawha County. By July 1, favored 

 host trees at scattered sites showed 10-30 percent foliage damage. (Cole). 

 TENNESSEE - Light in Knox, Sevier, Cocke, and Jefferson Counties. (Hammett). 



MORMON CRICKET ( Anabrus simplex ) - NEVADA - Adults light and scattered, less 

 than one per square yard, from 6,300-6,500 feet elevation in Big Creek area. 

 Lander County. (Bechtel, Martinelli) . 



PINK BOLLWORM ( Pec tinophora gossypiella ) - CALIFORNIA - Sterile moth releases in 

 Kern County June 25 to July 1 totaled 3,825,750; total to date 39,892,750. (PPD) . 

 ARIZONA - Up to 15 percent resetted blooms found in Yuma area, Yuma County. One 

 field found in Parker Valley area with 7 percent of bolls infested with early 

 larvae. On June 30, one 40-acre field treated and several other fields treated 

 by strip spraying heaviest infested areas of fields. (Ariz. Coop. Sur.). 



