INSECT PEST SURVEY BULLETIN 
Vol. 19 
September 1, 1939 
No. 7 
THE MOPE IMPORTANT RECORES EOR AUGUST 
Throughout the upper Great Plains egg laying by grasshoppers is well under 
way. Reports of damage in the New England and Middle Atlantic States, south to 
Pennsylvania, have been received from scattered localities. 
The European earwig was reported late in July for the first time from 
Montana, 
Decided increase in the population of the Japanese beetle was reported fror 
parts of New England. 
The Asiatic garden beetle was reported in large numbers in various local- 
ities from New York southward to the District of Columbia. 
The weevil Calomycterus setarius Roelofs was reported as troublesome in 
houses in Connecticut and New York. 
Blister beetles were generally abundant from New York southward to the 
South Atlantic States and westward to Mississippi. They were also unusually 
abundant and doing considerable damage in the East Central, North Central, and 
Plains States, and westward to the Pacific Northwest, 
The fall armyworm was occurring in scattered outbreaks from New York to 
Elorida and the Gulf States. 
The hessian fly was reported on the increase from Ohio to Nebraska. 
The wheat jointworm occasioned economic losses in Ohio for the first time 
in nearly 30 years. 
The black grain stem sawfly was reported from the Middle Atlantic and 
eastern part of the East Central States. 
Very late damage by the green bug was reported from Kansas. 
Damage by the European corn borer was reported from Connecticut southward 
0 eastern Virginia. This insect was found for the first time in North Carolina 
just across the State line from Virginia. 
The corn leaf aphid was generally prevalent in the Middle Atlantic 
central States, westward to Nebraska. 
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