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continue more rapidly as the ground dries out, 
Utah, &. S’. Knowlton ajid assistants (May 3)* Grr as shoppers, mostly Melanoplus 
sp, and largely in the first instar, occur at the rate of from 3 "to 5 
per square foot in some fields eaamined in localities in northern Utah, 
(May 6)i Hatching has increased noticeably in fence rows and in some 
alfalfa fields in Davis and Utah Counties, northern Utah, (May ll): 
Nymphs, mostly in the second and third instars, nuabered 10 to 50 per 
square yard on idle land adjoining a farm in the Ouray Valley, Uintah 
Co\inty, on May 7» Early maturing species had been winged for several 
weeks in this area, !The heaviest outbreak is of A, elliotti . Hatching 
is occurring rapidly at Eandlett, Reports received of heavy hatching 
on ranches in Skull Valley, Tooele County, and grasshoppers are becoming 
abundant in MillArd County, beginning to damage alfalfa. Both counties 
are in western Utah, (May l6): Hatching is taking place in large 
numbers at Minersville and on parts of Milford flats, both in Beaver 
County, southwestern Utah, (May 2l)s Very abundant and beginning to 
damage crops at Scipio, eastern Millard County. Adults of mexicanus , 
M, Packard! i Scudd, , Arphia pseudonietana Thos,, and Hippiscus corallipes 
Hald, are common now west of Tooele, and crops are being injured. Reported 
on May 20 that the warrior grasshopper ( Camnula pellucida Scudd,) 
is causing a very serious situation near Ephraim, Wales, and Manti, Sanpet 
County, central Utah. Populations ' of 100 to 1,500 per square yard are 
present in hatching grounds, (May 28): M, mexicanus is becoming winged 
on bench land east of Clearfield, at Layton, and at Kanarraville, and 
adults are common in foothill and range land south of Draper and east 
of Bltiffdale, Utah County, 
B. M. Gaddis and assistants (May 19-25)? Marginal damage to alfalfa 
is becoming common in various localities in Salt Lake, 'Davis, Weber, 
Millard, and Beaver Counties, M, mexicanus , the dominant species, had 
reached the adult stage in Tooele County by May 21, On idle lands lying 
adjacent to cropped areas, rapid drying is causing heavy concentrations 
of hoppers along field margins. Sea gulls are reported consuming large 
numbers of nymphs in Davis, Weber, and Box Elder Cotinties, 
Kansas, (May 12-18): North of Dodge City, in Ness County, A. turnbullii were 
just commencing to hatch during the fore part of the week. In the more 
southwestern counties of the State south of Dodge City, A. turnbullii 
were in the secpnd and third instars, confined mostly to small, isolated 
waste or pasture land. Roadside margins have populations of 20 to 30 
per square yard, (May 19—25): Infestations in the uplands of the Dodge 
City area as a whole are either threatening or severe, with the severe 
areas spotted and confined more or less to idle or abandoned lands, A 
severe infestation is present in the Arkansas River Valley from the 
eastern edge of Ford County to the western edge of Kearney County, 
Populations range from 100 to 150 per square yard but are limited to the 
immediate vicinity of the river in cultivated land, being especially 
heavy in and around alfalfa. Cool temperatures and scattered rains have 
prevailed over most of the western portion of the State during the week, 
consequently retarding the development of the hoppers. At present there 
