to 150 crickets per sqtiare yard* Migrations have not' "been definite at 
any time, as the weather Conditions have not been favorable and vege- 
tative growth has been good, tending to hold the crickets near the hatch 
beds. The general trend in Malheur County this week is the moving of 
crickets slowly back into the foothills from the canyons and lower areas. 
(May 19»25): Crickets at the lower elevations throughout the infested 
areas are in the adult stage and mating and oviposition is taking place 
in Wasco County. Pirst-instar Mormon crickets reported at some of the 
higher elevations in Baker County. 
Washington, (May 5"H)! The cricket hatch in Pranklin County is now conplete, 
with crickets ranging from fourth to sixth instar and from 5 "to 50 
per square yard. The infestation is of about the same extent as in 1939» 
Crickets in Klickitat County range from the first’ instar to adults and 
from 5 to 50 per square yard in the canyons. Hatch is practically com- 
plete, (May 12-18): In Klickitat County adults first were observed on 
May 5» crickets on that da,te ranging from first instar to. adult stage. 
The hatch is not yet complete. (May 19-25) s Approximately 95 percent of 
the crickets in Pranklin County are in the adult stage, with the remainder 
in sixth and seventh instars. Populations range from 16 to 3^ square 
yard. Migrations are occurring only in the early hours of the morning, 
.i 
South Dakota. (May 5“H)s Pirst-instar Mormon cricket nyn^hs at the rate of 
1 per square yard reported present along a field road 1 mile west of 
Lyman, in Lyman County, (May 19-25)s infestation in Todd and 
Mellette Counties is reported to be light and scattered, Pourth-instar 
crickets reported in Jones County. In an area located 5 niiles south of 
Draper, 50 crickets per sqn^e yard were reported in a band 1^2 mile 
' wide by 2 I miles long, 
Nebraska, (May I 9 - 25 )! Mormon crickets repo'rted in the follov/ing d^unties: 
Sioux, Scott sbluff. Banner, Kimball, Cheyenne, Deuel, Garden, and 
Morrill, ' ' 
CUTWOBMS (Noctuidae) 
New York, N, Y. State Coll. Agr. News Letter (May 13)t Spotted cutworms 
( Graphiphora c-nigrum L , ) numerous in a' strawberry planting of I /2 acre 
in Suffolk County, eastern New York, Nearly one-quarter of the plants 
defoliated; 
Delfeware, L, A, Stearns (May 21): Recently set tomato plants damaged at Camden, 
and tomato and pepper plants at Bridgeville, 
South Carolina, P, P, Bondy and G. P, Rainwater (M^ lO): Larvae, presumably 
Agrotis vetusta Walk,, very numerous, and about 40 acres of cotton 
destroyed near Sumter, Sumter County, on May 8 , (Det, by C, Heinrich.) 
(May 11 ): A field of cotton in Plorence County found infested on May 8 , 
This field consisted of 4o to 50 acres and the damage was so severe that 
the cotton had to be planted over. 
