GRASSHOPPER REPORT FOR 1895. 1 



By Lawrence Bruner, Temporary Field Agent. 



In accordance with instructions I proceeded to Colorado on the 

 evening of July 15, to be present at the meeting of the Association of 

 American Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations that Mas 

 held at Denver July 10 to 18, inclusive. Here I was enabled to meet 

 and converse with various station and college entomologists, as well as 

 other persons from different parts of the United States and Canada, 

 and obtained much information that materially aided me in looking up 

 the "locust conditions" over the West and Xorthwest during the past 

 six weeks. 



During my attendance at these meetings several excursions were 

 made into the surrounding country. In these excursions the regions 

 around Denver, Golden, Fort Collins, and some of the neighboring 

 towns were visited while examining into the condition of the outbreak 

 of "native" locusts or grasshoppers which occurred along the eastern 

 foothills of the Rockies on the Platte River and its tributaries. Of 

 these insects observed the following were the most abundant: Melano- 

 plus bivittatus, M. atlanis, M.fcedus, M. packardi, and Dissosteira longi- 

 pennis. All of these had been known before as destructive in one or 

 more parts of the United States, as will be seen by reference to Bulle- 

 tin 1*8 (first series) of the Division of Entomology, but this particular 

 region had never before suffered much from the attacks of locusts, save 

 of spretus, which seems to be almost entirely absent from the region the 

 present year. In fact, few specimens of it were seen anywhere over the 

 entire area covered in my journeys during the summer. 



While the injury caused by these "native" locusts has been com- 

 paratively light the present year when we remember the ravages of the 

 Rocky Mountain locust in years gone by. sufficient has been done by 

 them to- warrant decisive action on the part of settlers in the counties 

 of Douglas, Elbert, Bent, Jefferson, Arapahoe. Boulder, Weld, and Lari- 

 mer. In these counties only, so tar as could be ascertained by riding 

 over the State 1 and by inquiry at the office of the State board of horti- 

 culture, the secretary of which has charge of matters relating to insert 



1 Report made in acoordanoe with Letter o\ instruction from the BntomoL 



dated July 5, 1895. 



