Montana. (August 3“9)j majority of the Morraon crickets in the in- 
fested areas in Beaverheoxl County wore in the adult stage. In Big 
Horn County, in south-central Montana, migrations were sporadic and 
oviposition vras well ad.vojiccd excepting in the foothills of the Big 
Korn Mountains and in the Wolf Mountains, in which ancas egg deposi- 
tion was just Deginning, 
Wyoming,^ (July 20-26): Heavy oviposition was reported in Hot Springs 
County, egg d<.cposition occurring much nearer crop lands than in 1940. 
Ho migrations constituting a threat to crop lands occurred, Oviposi- 
tion v;as genera,! in Sheridan County hut had not yet been noted in Crook 
County, (July 27-*August 2): Migrrxtions occurred during the week in 
the Kirhy Creek area of Hot Springs County with some additional damage 
to crested Pirheat, corn, and small grains, 
Idah-o,^ (July 27~August 2): Migrations of crickets took place in Clark 
County on Middle and Crooked Creeks during the v/eck, The migration in 
Hremont County had changed its course and slowed dovrn, Oviposition was 
practically completed in the lox'/er counties of eastern Idaiio, 
Utali, C, Hnowlton, ct al. (August 2): Approxima.tely 75 percent of the 
eggs- have hecn laid in the- 'Tooele, Juah, and Utali County areas, inhere 
remnants of small cricket hands can still he found, A Palinodes v/asp 
has destroyed many in local areas, 
California, C, C, Wilson (August l4) ; Outhroalc reported in the Plumas 
Ha.tional Porest, Infestation covers an area of a,pproxinately 4S0 acres 
in a mountainous section, ranging in elevation from 6,000 to 6,S00 feet. 
Crickets ranged from less than 1 to S joor sq.uarc jaard, prohahl;/ aver- 
aging 2 per so^uare yard*, Oviposition wan in progress on August 5» 
examination of soil samples indicated an average density of 29 eggs per 
: . . --Square yard, Cpichots wore more abundant around hitterhrush and hig 
sagebrush, and nanked feeding iv'as observed on the crowns and roots of 
Poa sp,, woolly nulcsears, and nettleleaf horsemint, 
EUROPBAH EARWI.& . ( Porficula au-ricularia B,) 
Massanhusetts, A, I, Bourne (Au^prst 28): The first week of August we re- 
ceived a, report, accompanied by specimens, of the occurrence of car- 
v;igs from the tovm of Marshfield, which represents a considerable ex- 
pansion, aionpg the shore lino north of Plymouth, of the- infestation 
vd'iich has been present in cantern Massachusetts, 
Ehode Island, B. Eddy (August 2S): Infestation of the Euroi)can earwig was 
very hor.vy- in' Hc^»qport County and mcdiur.i in ^''^cs-terly, ■ 
Utak, G-, E. Knowlton (August 2): Causing annoyance to persons a.t Earnington, 
