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GENERAL FEEDERS 
GRASSHOPPERS (Acrididae) 
Tennessee. G. M. Bentley (October 23): Causing a 25-percent defolia- 
tion on soybeans at Dresden, Weakley County, on October 6. 
Injuring clover at Greenfield, Weakley County, on October 7, with 
an average of 10-percent defoliation, and 100 percent on a. strip 
20 feet wide on the outer edge of the field. Swarming in hordes 
into the town of Waynesboro, Wayne County, on October 12. 
Illinois. W. P. Flint (October 25): Fall survey indicates that eggs 
are much less abundant than at any time in the last 5 years. 
Predators have been concentrating on the egg masses. In one 
area 5^ percent of the eggs had already been destroyed. 
Michigan. E. I. McDaniel (September 23): Melanoplus mexicanus Sauss. 
was found laying eggs in Antrim County as late as September 21. 
Missouri. L. Haseman (October 23): Surveys under way throughout 
Missouri indicate numerous eggs throughout part of southern 
Missouri, where hoppers were most abundant during the summer and 
fall. Some females of both the lesser migratory hopper and the 
differential (M. differential is Thos.) had not yet deposited 
their eggs at Columbia by the middle of October. Throughout most 
of the northern two-thirds of the State indications are that 
there \vill be only a light carry-over of eggs. 
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Oklahoma. C. F. Stiles (October 23): The second brood of M, mexicanus 
has evidently deposited a large number of eggs throughout the 
northern halves of Texas and Cimarron Counties, in the Oklahoma 
Panhandle. The area where the eggs are found is the principal 
wheat-growing section of these counties. 
MORMON CRICKET ( Anabrus simplex Hald. ) 
Utah. C. J. Sorenson (October 23): Infestations occurred in menacing 
numbers in Juab, Millard, Sanpete, and Tooele Counties. Damage 
to farm crops did not exceed $2,500 during 1939. although an 
aggregate of..i2S,500 acres of crops was protected from damage. 
Small infestations occurred in Iron, San Juan, and Utah Counties. 
Total area infested during 1939 is estimated at 312,000 acres, 
as compared with 500,000 acres in 1937. 
JAPANESE BEETLE ( Popillia .japonica Newm.) 
Vermont. H. L. Bailey (October 26): Traps operated in Burlington, 
northwestern Vermont, showo4 increase in number of beetles over 
previous seasons. Burlington is an isolated colony, the nearest 
