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GENERAL FEEDERS 
GRASSHOPPERS (Acrididae) 
Illinois. W. P. Elint (September 23) J Population has declined steadily during the 
latter part of the summer and is now the lowest in the last 5 years at least 
Missouri. L. Haseman (September 26): Surveys of adult abundance throughout the 
State during September indicate that, except for a few counties in south- 
eastern and south-central Missouri, the harmful species have again returned 
to normal abundance. 
Nebraska. M. H. Swenk (September l4): Complaints of injuries continued to be re- 
ceived from western and central Nebraska up to the close of August. A 
specimen of Schistocerca obscura E., a rate species for Nebraska, sent in 
from Gosper County on September 1. 
Kansas. H. R, Bryson (September 25): Not abundant enough to cau^-e trouble to 
early seeded alfalfa or wheat in the eastern part of the State. 
Oklahoma. C. E. Stiles (September 2l): The second brood of Melanoplus mexicanus 
Sauss. is rapidly approaching maturity in the northern quarter of Texas 
and Cimarron Counties. Control measures still being used. Infestation over 
the rest of the State is very light, 
Utah, G. E, Knowlton (September 5)i Egg laying and mating much in evidence 
throughout Utah. (September l6): Adults threateningly abundant, parti- 
cularly in northern Utah, and moderately abundant in a few, scattered 
localities in the rest of the State, 
California. S. Lockwood (August 3 1 ) I Adults of M. mexicanus are numerous in the 
alfalfa fields of Imperial County. Nymphs observed in only 1 instance. 
Counts ranged from 10 to 4o per square yard, 
JAPANESE BEETLE ( Pppillia .japonica Newm.) 
Rhode Island. A. E, Stene (September 20): Very great increase. Trap collections 
last year amounted to 800,000 beetles and this year to over 3,000,000. 
Spreading slowly , although it does not cover any large areas in the State. 
Connecticut. J. p, Johnson (September 23): Emergence delayed somewhat by dry 
weather. Peak of abundance from 1 to 2 weeks later than usual. Abundance 
immense, as compared with that of last year. 
New York. . M. D. Leonard (September 28): Early in September beetles had apparently 
entirely disappeared from Flushing, but partly grown grubs were found in 
fair numbers feeding on, grass roots at the surface of the ground. Reports 
received from Bronxville and White Plains nbout September 15 that beetles 
were still feeding on grapevines and several kinds of flowering plants in 
gardens . 
