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rather important injuries "by grasshoppers ( Melanonlus spp. )i 
especially in alfalfa fields, developed in Nuckolls County and 
also in western Buffalo County, in the vicinity of Elm Creek. 
R. A. Cooley (June 7): A considerable area extending into 
Hill, Liberty, and Chouteau Counties was heavily infested with 
eggs of Melanonlus at Ian is Riley this spring. The eggs hatched 
late in April and early in May but weather conditions killed off 
the young nymphs and prevented a severe outbreak, 
Stewart Lockwood (June 21): Grasshoppers are not so numerous 
near Havre as was expected from the number of eggs last autumn, 
but were numerous enough to warrant control measures. 
WIREWORMS (SI at er idae ) 
J. J, Davis (June 26): Wireworms are unusually abundant in 
all sections of the State. Continue to receive some reports 
of damage to onions in the northeastern part of the State. 
Corn badly damaged at Madison, Decatur, Indianapolis, and 
elsewhere, » 
T, H, Parks (May 31) J Specimens were sent in with the statement 
that they were destroying tomatoes in commercial gardens near 
Marietta, This land had been plowed in the fall, 
S, 3, Jracker (Juno 16) : One report was received of heavy 
damage to corn at Sauk City in Dane County, 
J, W. McColloch (June 15) ' In the last week in May injury to 
germinating corn was reported from Lone 31m, Ozawkie, Harveyville, 
Eureka, and Burlington. 
M, H, Swenk (June 25) : Wirewcrm injury was not as important as 
usual in Nebraska this spring. One infested field that came to 
our attention was a cornfield in Sherman County, near Loup 
City, where larvae of Melanotus fissilis Say had by the middle 
of June done sons serious damage on fall-plowed land. A few 
s previously the destruction of a rather large planting of 
young onions in Saline County by small wireworms of the genus 
Monocrepediuc was brought to our attention 
R» A. Cooley (June f): On wheat, potatoes, and peas, general 
In the State, Severe damage in some places. 
MCRMON CRICKET ( Anabrus simplex Kald. ) 
R, A, Cooley (June 7): 'Hie Mormon cricket is very abundant and 
doing severe damage in Lake, Missoula, and Sanders Counties in 
western Montana, 
