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GENERAL FEEDERS 
GRASSHOPPERS (Acrididae) 
Florida. F. S. Chamberlin. (April 20): Newly emerged grasshoppers are abun- 
dant in tobacco fields in Gadsden County, necessitating control measures. 
J. R. Watson (April 25): First lubberly locusts ( Romalea microptera 
Beauv.) hatched at Gainesville on April 8, hatching being general by 
April 15. 
Arizona. C. Wakeland (April 8): Egg-pod populations were examined during 
the latter half of March 'in Cochise and Graham Counties, southeastern Ari- 
zona, in areas infested by Melanoplus m exicanus (Sauss.). Survey confined 
mostly to range-land areas of the Sulphur Springs Valley and vicinity. 
Approximately 200,000 acres of range land found to be generally infested, 
egg pods averaging 1.3 per square foot; crop acreage in infested area 
represents less than 5 percent of the total area. First hatching occurred 
about March 15. By March 29 hatch throughout the area was about 25 per- 
cent complete. (April 16): Hatch of M. mexi canus in Yuma County is about 
65 percent complete, this species representing about 98 percent of total 
population. 
Texas. C. Wakeland (April 16): During the week ended April 11, in the 
southern part of the Texas Panhandle, hatching was in progress, M. mexi- 
canus being the dominant species. Populations averaged 40 hoppers per 
square yard along infested field margins. 
Idaho. J. R. Douglass (April 22): Hatching observed in southwestern and 
southern Idaho on April 6 and 20, respectively. 
Utah. G. F. Knowlton (April 2): Nymph of Hippiscus corallines Hald., more 
than 3/4 inch long, found south of Promontory. 
W. E. Peay (April 20): First- and second-instar grasshoppers observed 
in Weber, Box Elder, Davis, Salt Lake, and Utah Counties between April 15 
and 17. 
California. S. Lockwood (April 21): The valley grasshopper ( Oedaleonotus 
enigma (Scudd.) and M. mexicanus devastator Scudd. now range from first 
to third instars in Fresno, Kings, and Kern Counties. Populations in 
Kern County apparently as great as in 1940. Reports from Riverside indi- 
cate infestation by the valley cricket of a relatively small area in River- 
side County. Reports from Imperial County indicate that M. mexicanus is 
appearing in numbers sufficient to warrant control, 
MORMON CRICKET ( Anabrus simplex Hald.) 
South Dakota. H. C. Severin, et al. (April 25): Crickets are beginning to 
hatch. 
Wyoming. B. T. Snipes (April 10): Large numbers hatched in range and farm 
land in the northeastern section of Hot Springs County on April 8. 
Nevada. C. Wakeland (April 8): Reported as beginning to hatch in Pershing 
County on March 28, in Humboldt County on March 30, and in Lander County 
on April 2. 
Washington. C. Wakeland (April 16): Confined at present to bunchgrass 
areas in Franklin County. Hatching began on the Yakima Indian Reservation 
about March 20. 
Oregon. C. Wakeland (April 8): Growth retarded by cool weather in the Warn 
Springs area of Wasco County to such an extent that crickets are much 
smaller than normal. No migrations on either side of the Deschutes River, 
