REPORT UPON INSECT INJURIES IN NEBRASKA DURING 

 THE SUMMER OF 1892. 



By Lawrence Bruner, Special Agent. 



letter of submittal. 



Lincoln, Nebr., Nov. 12, 1892. 

 Sir: As special field agent for Nebraska, I submit herewith a report upon insect 

 injuries in this State during the summer of 1892. The report touches upon the out- 

 look for destructive locusts, but is mainly devoted to a consideration of certain sugar- 

 beet insects, with a brief notice of the miscellaneous injurious insects of the season. 

 Very respectfully yours, 



Lawrence Bruner. 

 C. V. Riley, 



U. S. Entomologist 



DESTRUCTIVE LOCUSTS. 



On account of the great amount of injury done by destructive locusts 

 during the past few years and because of their threatened increase 

 again early the present season in many localities over the country at 

 large, a careful watch has been maintained during the season that has 

 just passed for reported injury to crops by these much- dreaded insects. 

 It is with pleasure, therefore, that I am enabled to state that com- 

 paratively little damage has been done by them the country over. 

 True, in a few localities, there was some local injury; but, when we 

 take into consideration the fact that last year a number of different 

 species were unusually numerous in various portions of the country, 

 west, north, south, and east, it is certainly encouraging, to say the 

 least, that so little injury has resulted the present year. 



Here in Nebraska several species hatched in rather large numbers 

 and began to do some injury to gardens; but during the summer these 

 became more or less infested with parasites of different kinds. These 

 parasites thinned their ranks materially. In a number of localities the 

 fungous disease known as Empusa grylli killed off myriads of the 

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