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GENERAL FEEDERS 
GRASSHOPPERS (Acrididae) 
General. B, M. Gaddis (July j); Most of- the . lesser migratory hoppers ( Melanoplus 
mexicanns. Sauss . ) have reached the adult stage and the rest are rapidly- 
maturing. In the southern half of this species* range eggs are being laid. 
Concentration in crops becoming general from areas in eastern Montana and 
Wyoming, from western Nebraska and the Dakotas, and in eastern Colorado and 
southwestern Kansas. Populations on idle and abandoned lands dwindling. 
(July 13) : Plights have recently been general in the Northern Great Plains 
area, but have been moderate and crop destruction is light. Up to July 8 
no definite reports of large swarms as invading new territory nor of serious 
crop losses from migrations in Montana and North Dakota. (July 19): Popu- 
lations so reduced that control operations are no longer justified. Popula- 
tions shifting daily, particularly from harvested fields, with concentro- 
tions on the more succulent crops, such as corn, and considerable damage 
in local areas. Losses from flights do not compare with those of last 
season. Oviposit ion just starting and potential flights may be stopped 
on this account, thus possibly causing heavier damage in local areas than 
has resulted from the hitherto shifting of populations. Hoppers now large- 
ly in the adult stage. (July j): Control operations for the long-winged 
migratory grasshopper ( Dissosteira longipennis Thos. ) continuing in Colorado 
along the northeastern border of New Mexico and in Lincoln County, to be 
complete about mid-July. No extensive flights reported. Remaining adults 
thinly scattered, with little tendency to band together. (July 13): In the 
Texas .Panhandle rarely found exceeding 2 or 3 per square yard, where former- 
ly they numbered hundreds per square yard. Control work practically com- 
pleted in New Mexico, along the Colorado-New Mexico border, in the Oklahoma 
Panhandle, and in southeastern Kansas. Work reduced in Colorado, to be 
finished in a short time. Flights of a minor local character reported 
recently in New Mexico, originating apparently in an isolated, inaccessible, 
mountainous area on the Colorado-New Mexico border. (July 19): Control 
operations in Colorado and Oklahoma discontinued the middle of July. Con- 
trol in Colorado complete up to 85 to 90 percent. Work in Kansas to be 
finished by the end of this week. Remaining hoppers so scattered as to 
preclude economic control. Control so successful as to prevent consequen- 
tial flights and to bring then down to - Gone con omic proportions. 
Indiana. J. J. Davis (July 22): Unusually abundant in some areas, especially 
in northern Indiana. In a 200-acre orchard at Elkhart young hoppers were 
very numerous in the alfalfa cover crop, migrating to trees and seriously 
damaging peach fruits. 
Wisconsin. E. L. Chambers (July 24): Wet, cold weather in the northwestern part 
of the State , where grasshoppers were expected to be most serious from 
the fall egg survey, kept the grasshoppers well in check until mid-July, 
when the red-legged species (M, f enur- rub rum Deg.) began to hatch. Now 
threatening corn, sugar^eets, tobacco, and emergency hay crops in this 
area, as well as in about six counties in the east-central part of the 
State. 
