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Table 10- — Egg beds of D. longj-pennis in Golprado and 
Uew Mexico in 1939 '* ' ' '' ' 
State 
Egg beds 
. 
Average Size 
egg beds 
Pods per 
square 
foot 
Predators per square, foot 
Bee fly 
Bliste-r 'beetle 
— — — j 
Number 
Acres 
Number 
Number ' 
Number 
Colorado - - 
98 
19,5 
4,5 
3,0 
'"0,3^"’' 
New Mexico - 
101 
2,5 
5,6 
.7 i 
,3 
Table 
ll.—Bstimated infestation of D. lonslpennis 
in Colorado 
and New Mexico In 1939 
State 
Egg beds 
Area of 
egg beds 
Total area 
infested 
(Questionable 
area , 
Number 
Acres 
Acres 
Acres 
Colorado 
98 
1910 
164, 000 
137,700 
New Mexico - 
101 
250 
30,000 
7, 000 
”Bgg pod counts averaged from less than 1 per square foot to more 
than 17 per square foot. The 98 egg beds of Colorado were found in Otero, 
Lincoln, Las Animas, Pueblo, Cheyenne, and Adams Counties, In New Mexico . 
the 101 egg beds were found in Q,uay and- DeBaca Counties, The total in- 
fested area includes all the area over which the grasshoppers ranged during', 
the laying season. The questionable area includes acreage in which 
D. longjpennis was present during part of the laying season, but where no , 
egg beds were found, Baca, Bent, Pueblo, Cheyenne, and Adams Counties of 
Colorado, and Chaves County, N, Mex, , had questionable area,” 
Melanonlus ocoiden'talis Area 
In Nye and Lander Counties,! Nev,,‘‘ there bccurred an outbreak of 
Melanonlus occidehtalis occidentalis Thoa- The situation was covered by 
G. M, Shogren, who submitted the following information: ’’Prior to 1939 
the range grasshopper ( M. occidentalis occidentalis ) was not known to 
exist in Nevada, Inquiry by the writer of local residents as to past in- 
festations brought forth no reliable information. Some local ranchers 
seemed to remember a heavy grasshopper infestation on the range about 30 
years ago, Indians say that 60 to 70 years ago a, heavy range infestation 
occurred for two summers. The range was damaged heavi ly at ■ thi s time and 
all deer left the country to seek grazing elsewhere. In July 1938; a 
flight of grasshoppers, presumably M- ocoidentalls occidentalis . settled 
over the buildings and fields of the Turner ranch in Big Smoky Valley, 
The next morning the ’hoppers took flight into the nearby hills and were 
not observed again by Mr, Turner, Late in the summer a flight of 
