INSECT TEST SURVEY BULLETIN 
Vol. 6 
July 1, 1926 
No. 5 
OUTSTANDING ENTOMOLOGICAL FEATURES IN TEE UNITED STaTES FOR JUNE, 1926 
As the wheat season draws to a close the situation as a whole is favorable, 
out little serious commercial damage by the Hessian fly is reported from any 
part of the wheat belt. 
In general, over the chinch bug belt, this pest is not serious. Scattered 
outbreaks are reported from Mississippi and rather intense infestations in south- 
eastern and southern Nebraska; rather serious damage is also reported from 
Kansas and central Missouri. 
The cool late season in the Lake Region and New England resulted in many > 
reports of damage by the seed com maggot. In several cases the outbreaks ^ore 
confined to fields heavily treated with organic fertilizers* 
Armyworm outbreaks are reported from southern Indiana and Illinois, and 
southwestern Missouri, 
_ Cutworms continued to be destructive through early June, particularly in the 
Ohio and upper Mississippi River Valleys. 
In the Gulf Region an unusually heavy infestation of corn by the sugarcane 
beetle is renorted, in many cases necessitating replanting of the crop. 
Very sarious infestations of corn by the larvae of the grape colaspis have 
been reported from Indiana and Illinois. 
The corn ear worm has been exceptionally troublesome in North Carolina, South 
Carolina, G-eorgia, and Alabama. Most of the damage was in the vicinity of vetch 
fields, from which the worms migrated to corn and cotton when the vetch was 
cut. 
Eruit aphid s in general continued to be extremely rare throughout June over 
the Central, Eastern, and New England States. 
The codling moth is reported as decidedly more abundant than usual in the 
east— central States, reports having been received from Indiana, Illinois, and 
Missouri. 
In the New England States the plum curculio was delayed by theretarded 
season as was also the case in New York State. In the East-Central States the 
Post seems to be more abundant than usual, particularly in Indiana and Missouri, 
whereas in G-eorgia the infestation is extremely light. 
The weevil Lictroderes a uicalis was found for the first time near the 
Coast in the State of Mississippi on June 15. 
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