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WASHIHGTON 
This is the first year in which collections of grasshoppers in 
typical environments have "been included in this project. Grasshoppers are 
not the problem in V/ashington that they are in other States, This may be 
due partly to climatic conditions and partly to the farming practices, which 
leave very little space for egg deposition of the common economic species, 
A total of 613 specimens were collected in the two major grasshopper habi- 
tats — alfalfa and native grasses, Melanoolus femur- rub rum was dominant in 
the alfalfa and Camnula xtellucida in the native grass. Only 9 ^ecies are 
represented in the collections. 
The grasshopper populations are at a very low ebb in the State, 
with infestations limited to alfalfa fields and undisturbed land within 
the intensively farmed areas. Clean summer fallow, with the land cultivated 
up to the road’s edge, leaving little or no field margin, does not permit 
the development of infestations within grain stubble of M, mexicanus or 
other economic species. 
