INSECT PEST SURVEY BULLETIN 
Vcl. 19 
April 1, 1939 
No. 2 
THE MORE IMPORTANT RECORDS EOR MARCH 
Probably the most interesting, development in the month of March was 
an outbreak of green "bug infesting ’"heat in Oklahoma. 
Mormon cricket eggs were hatching in Oregon during the second week 
in the month and in Washington during the third week. 
Spring surveys indicate, that there will he a heavy flight of May 
beetles in Kentucky this spring. During the las>t week in March numbers 
of these beetles wore flying in Louisiana. Other States reporting large 
numbers of grubs are Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, and Utah. 
The sugar-beet wireworn was reported as heavily infesting potatoes 
in Los Angeles County and watermelon plantings in the San Joaquin Valley, 
Calif. 
Chinch bug is sufficiently numerous in parts of western Indiana to 
produce moderately heavy infestations. High survival is also reported 
from Illinois, southeastern Iowa, and parts of Missouri. 
The San Jose scale passed the winter, with but little mortality in 
Georgia, Illinois, and Missouri, and reports of damage were received from 
Mississippi and Oklahoma. 
Codling. moth larvae passed the winter successfully in N ew York, 
Kentucky, Illinois, and Missouri. In the Cornelia section of Georgia 
larvae were beginning to pupate during the third week in March. 
J ^ s *? f the frait tree leaf roller are very numerous in western 
Illinois and eastern Missouri, with indications of heavy infestations 
. Aphi ? nr * eenornlly ahunclnnt on apple in Pennsylvania, Virginia. 
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