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SC!' PEST SURVEY BULLETIN 
Vol . 19 
July 1, 1939 
No . 
THE HORS I HP CRT' ANT RECORDS FOR JUNE 
Grasshoppers aro rapidly reaching maturity over the entire 
infested area, except in central and northern North Dakota, where 
development has "been somewhat delayed. A few heavy flights are 
occurring in Montana, although weather conditions at the end of the 
month were forcing the hoppers to the ground. Small local flights 
are occurring in the Red River Valley section of Minnesota, limited 
parts of western North Dakota, South Dakota, eastern Montana, Nebraska, 
Kansas, and Wyoming. 
Adults of the Japanese beetle began to appear the first we ok of 
the month along the Atlantic seaboard from New Jersey to Norfolk, 
Va. , and by the end. of the month were very abundant. 
The rose chafer is destructively abundant from Massachusetts 
westward to Indiana and Tennessee. Fruit and also flowers of all 
kinds have been injured considerably. 
Blister beetles are very abundant in the Groat Plains region 
from North Dakota to Texas, and also reported in Virginia, Indiana, 
Tennessee, and Mississippi. 
Rather high infestation of the hessian fly in some early sown 
fields in northwestern Ohio and northeastern Indiana; infestation 
is under 10 percent in southern and central Ohio. Infestation is 
generally light and scattered in southwestern Missouri. Some com- 
mercial damage has occurred in the southeastern corner of Nebraska. 
In Kansas the infestations over most of the central and. southern 
parts of the State average under 10 percent, and a few widely 
separated fields are highly infested. 
Rains in Indiana and Illinois have greatly reduced the chinch 
bug infestations; however, in western Indiana some trouble is antici- 
pated. In southern Iowa the insect is so abundant that serious damage 
is anticipated. It is quite destructive in north-central and north- 
western Missouri, in southeastern Nebraska, and northeastern Kansas, 
and unusually numerous in south-central and southwestern Oklahoma. 
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