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light to moderate flights occurred during the fore part of the week 
throughout v/estern Kansn,s, from southeast to southwest. Movement of 
hoppers from stuhhle into margins of fall-vfheat fields was heavy; how~ 
ever, most hoppers concentrated along margins, and field populations 
averaged loss than 10 per square yard. Damage to fall seedings and 
. winter wheat was increasing daily and was estir.ia,ted rt 10 percent of 
all vrheat seeded in the more heavily infested cotmties — &rnnt, Greeley, 
Hoj-iilton, Morton, and Stanton, 
Kansas, 3. G, Kelly (Septemher 25): It appeo.rs that many species of grass- 
hoppers are laying eggs. Second-generation M, nexicanus has "been 
devastating v-rheat around the edges of fields in the v/estern part of 
the State, extending into Kansas about three coojities deep, M, hivit- 
tatus Say and. M. dif ferentia.lis are d.oing considerable damEsge to al- 
falfa and early planted wheat througli the eastern half of the State, 
Nebraska,^ (September l4-20): Approximately 60 percent of the second.-gen— 
era,tion M, nexicanus was a,d.ult and 30 percent in the f if th-instajr 
njmphal stage at the end of the i^eek. Sait was used from Deuel County 
east to Cass and. Sarpy Counties, in the southern pant of the State, 
and also in York, Seward., Polk, Clay, Pillmore, and^ Hamilton Counties, 
Missouri, H. 3. 3rov.m (September 26): Practically a.ll individuals of 
second-generation M, nexicanus are a.dult. Egg laying by this species 
has been under way for some days, and at lea^t 50 percent of the eggs 
of M, diff erentialis ha.ve been laid, 
Iowa,~^ (September l4-20) : Second-generation H, nexicanus v/as reported as 
raiher abundant in the southw'c stern part of the State, 
Utah, G. 3. Knovrlton, et al, (September 12): Many M, nexicanus and M, 
f emur-rubrum Deg, ane still alive and laving eggs at Orem and North 
Ogden, In general, M, bivittatus has laid, its eggs and decreased, 
noticeably in abundance, M, nexicanus , H, packa.rdii Scud.d, , and M, 
bivittatus are still abimdant at North Ogden and. Huntsville, and moder- 
aiely abundant a,t Uintah, Ed.en, and. southeast of Ogden, in ¥eber County, 
(September 24): Schistocorca sho shone Thos, is mod.erately abundant 
in a raspberry pa.tch at Orem, 
YIELD CRICKET ( Gryllus assinilis 3.) 
Texas, C, 3. Nickels andt U, C, Pierce (August 10-23 ): Crickets were a 
nuisance in business sections of Brovmv/ood, 3rad.y, Coleman, Abilene, 
and San Angelo, It vras necessaxy. to cut off bright lights to avoid 
attra.cting enormous numbers of crickets, Dea.d bodies were so abundant 
on the streets of Brovmwood that it was necessary to wash the streets 
\:^ith a fire hose, (Det. by A, B, Gurney,) 
. W, C. Maxwell (Septqmber 22): Very numerous in the vicinity of 
RobstOT'/n, Q;uantities have collected, nightly in front of build.ings, 
v/here they v/ere apparently attracted by lights, A smaller species is 
a.lso present but the larger species is pred.ominant. 
