,.-U9g- 
California* 0, G-. Bacon (July 22) i Ui devastator Scudd, caused some damage 
to dry, first-crop Mission figs on the ground and in a drying yri.rd at 
Bound Mountain, Holes v;ere chewed in the figs, causing them to he 
classed as culls. Insects were numerous on the hi^way near the G-rey 
Colony School, east of Brosno,- having migrated from grain stuhhlc, 
VJisconsin, 3. K, G-addis (July 27-August 2); The dominant species still M, 
hixuttatus , with M. femur- ruh rum showing up heavily in spots, Consider- 
ahlo damage v^as done to sccond-grov/th alfalfa and clover ha;j?- fields, 
Harmors iverc not alarmed, hov/ever, due to the humper first cr5p of hay, 
(Augiest 3“9)* Throtighout contra,! ^''?’isconsin, M. f emun-ruhrxm replaced M, 
hivittatu.s as the dominant species. Crop damage was increasing, especi- 
ally to second-growth alfalfa and red clover, and v/as more severe than 
at any previous time this year, 
Michign.n,~^ (July 20-26): Crop dam.ago \-ias reported becoming more a.cutc in 
the nori:hv/estcrn portion of the Lower Michigan Peninsula, Harvesting 
of small grains v;as well under viay, resulting in movement of the gra,ss- 
hoppers to other- crops. Heavy dama,ge occurred, to oa:ts, rye, alfalfa, 
scedings, and beans, . A total loss of alfa.lfa scedings occurred in sev- 
eral instances and. 20 percent loss to rye v;as reported due to destruc- 
tion of ripening secd.^ Some corn damage v/as beginning, (August 3“9)* 
G-rasshopper dovolop-mont in the northern portions of the Lower Michigan 
Peninsula was v’ell a.dvanced. with more than SO percent of the grasshoppers 
in the adult sta^ge, 
Ohio, T. K, Parks (August 26): ^erious local outbreaks occurred throughout 
central and southern Ohio during July and August, Complaints v/oro most 
numerous during the first week of August, 
Kontuclg*, M, L, DidlaJoo (August 26): Crasshoppers still reported, as numer- 
ous and destri^ctivo to field, crops, vegetables, and. floxircrsi. 
Pennsylvania, H. Horthley (August 19): On August 13 a ;^oung apple orchard 
in Aspers, Ad.ams County, was observed, as pra.cticallj^ defoliated by red- 
legged grasshoppers , M, f omur-_rubru.m , which rose in clouds from the 
stubble of a recently cut cover crop, Lamage v.^as noted on low-hanging 
folia.ge and. fruit of apple in nearb;'- sodded orchards, H. M, Steiner, 
of Arendtsville, Adams County, reported increasing damage by this spec- 
ies to ripening peaches in cover-cropped orchards, 
Rhode Island, B, Edd.y (Au.gust 2S): Infesta.tion by the grasshoppers M, f onur- 
rubrum and Dissostoira Carolina L. is \uiusuallj’’ hca.vj^ throughout the 
Sta.to, 
MORI'iOH CRICKET ( Anabrus s.iuplcx Kald, ) 
South Dakota, D, M, G-addis (Julj' 20-26): Reported as concentrated along 
ma.rgins and fenccrov;s v/ith little novenont. Egg dciDOsition was in- 
creasing, an cstima.tod 12 percent having completed oviposition. 
