INSECT PEST SURVEY BULLETIN 
Vol. 21 
April 1, 1341 
No. 2 
THE MORE IMPORTANT RECORDS FOR MARCH 
During the first week in February the eggs of the lesser migratory 
grasshopper began hatching in California, and by the middle of March JO 
percent of the eggs in unshaded fields had hatched. 
Mormon crickets were observed to be hatching in the foothills of 
Utah, in the middle of March, 
Early spring surveys in Oklahoma, Kansas, and Iowa indicate that 
winter mortality of chinch bug is comparatively low. 
An outbreak of the greenbug is under way in central Oklahoma. 
Fuller's rose beetle was reported as doing commercial damage in 
raspberry plantings in parts of California. 
In New York the codling noth has passed the winter thus far with 
very low mortality. In the Yakima district, in Washington State, about 
20 percent of the larvae had pupated by March 21, 
Winter mortality of the plum curculio in the Fort Valley section of 
Georgia was unusually low. This insect is leaving hibernation late this 
spring, synchronizing with the late blooming of peach. The first adult 
was taken on March 17 . 
The green citrus aphid is becoming numerous in southern and central 
Florida, 
Large numbers of pepper weevils have passed the winter successfully 
in Los Angeles and Orange Counties, Calif, 
Winter survived of the Nantucket pine shoot moth in parts of Virginia 
is high, . 
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