INSECT PEST 
SURVEY BULLET I, N 
Voltune 21 
July 1, 1941 
No. 5 
THE MORE IMPORTMT RECORDS EOR JUNE 
Very heavy populations of grasshoppers appeared during the month in south- 
eastern Arizona, the Panhandles of Texas and Oklahoma, and southwestern Hansas, 
Grasshopper populations in Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois xvere larger than usual. 
Localized infestations were found in various parts of the remaining Great Plains 
and Rocky Monnto-in Stakes, 
The peak of Mormon cricket ovlposition has "been passed in Oregon and Washing- 
ton, Extensive migrations occurred in Idaho, Development has heen delayed in 
Nevada "because of unfavorable weather. Inf ostak ions in Montana, Wyoming, and 
South Dakota are light, except in a fev; local areas. 
The rose chafer was generally more abundant than usual from New England 
southward to Virginia and westward to Illinois and Wisconsin, 
Japanese beetle adults began appearing in numbers during the third v^eek in 
the month throughout the infested area. 
Emergence of \irhite-f ringed beetle adults was first observed during the second 
week of the month in Louisiana, 
Very heavy flights of army cutworm moths v;ere observed in eastern Montana 
and western Nebraska, 
In Ventura Coimty, Calif,, serious damage to sugar beets wa.s occasioned by 
the beet armyv/orm. 
Heavy inf estcokions of hessian fly vrcre reported in Ohio, Illinois, and Iowa, 
In general, chinch bug was less abundant than, was anticipated over pranticakly 
the entire infested anea. Heavy rakns ployed an important part in this reduction. 
Corn ear worm was reported as more okundant than usual in the South Atlantic 
Stokes and v/estward to Illinois, 
Surveys carried on in Illinois during the last week in May showed that the 
sweetclover weevil extends throughout the northern half of the State, 
Comstock* s mealybug females api^eared about S daj^s earlier than they did last 
year in western Virginia and eastern West Virginia, 
Rather heavy infestations of Europoan red mite were reported from Maine, 
Pennsylvania, and Ohio, 
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