I IT SECT PEST SUEVEY SULLETIE 
Vol, 21 October 1, 194l ITo. g 
THE MOEE niPOETAET EECOEES EOE SEPTEl-CBEE 
The second generation of Melnnoplus mexicanus Sauss , , continued to 
develop in the southern Great Plains area in eastern Colorado, western 
Krjisas, southern Eehraska, and the Panliandle of Texas and Oklahoma, Hatch- 
ing, v/hich oegan in August in most of the area, v/as completed early in 
September, In the southern portion of the infestation development to the 
adult stage was complotod by the middle of September, though progressively 
loiter to .the north. Dispersal flights v/ero reported, in Kansas and Texas, 
v/hilo general movement of nymphs and adv.lts took plane from stubble into 
margins and fields of fall wheat, Var^/ing d.ogrees of damage to fall-sown 
and voln.ntecr grain v/as caused, in most cases, only to margins, though in 
some fields injury was general, 
^iThitc grubs cansed. severe injury to corn in pants of Maine, Similar 
d.am.a.go v/as reported from the renamlor of Hew England, and^ Pennsylvania and 
westvmrd to Illinois, Wisconsin, and. Kansas, 
Dali armyiiTorm was generally reported an numerous and destructive 
from the South Atlantic States westv/ard to Kansas and Iowa, Dam.age by 
this insect was also reported fz'on CaJifornia, 
Corn ear worn was unusually abundant in Maryland andu Virginia and 
throughout the iiississippi Valle;,’’, Late sweet corn in Oregon was heavily 
infested., Heaay dana.ge to tona.toes is reported, from UtaJh, 
The Et'.roioean corn borer v/as reported from several counties in Wis- 
consin not previousl;/ knoxim to be infested. 
The velvetbean cavterpillar severely dama^ged soybeans and velvetbeaiis 
in the South Atlantic States from Worth Carolina to Florida and around 
the Gu.lf to Louisiana,, in many cases completely duefoliating the plants, 
Eela.tively heo.vy socond.-brood infestations of codling moth were re- 
ported from the East Centra.1 States, Infosta.tion by this insect in Maine 
wa-s the heaviest in the last 5 years, 
Tlie peach twig borer very severely d.aanaged almonds in the Sacramento 
Va.lley of Ca.lifornia, 
Hibernating populoAions of the curculio in the Fort Valley sec- 
tion of Georgia were hoa,vicr than usual. 
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