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GRASSHOPPSRS 
In late January and early February, reports of the appearance of grass- 
hoppers were received from Missouri and South Dakota, These, however, were 
"but the overwintering nymphs of economically unimportant species "brought 
out "by the very unseasonably warm weather. During the first week in May, 
grasshopper eggs "began hatching in Montana and "by the third week hatching 
was reported from the Great Plains. Daring the latter part of May, outbreaks 
were under way in the Klamath Lake and Antelope Valley districts of Califor- 
nia and Oregon and the Salt River Valley of Arizona. During June, outbreaks 
in the Great Plains States, southward to northern Kansas, had developed to 
such an extent as to require drastic control measures. In the three north- 
western counties of Kansas (Cheyenne, Thomas, and Sherman) grasshoppers 
were so numerous as to require the application of over a million pounds of 
poisoned bait for their control, and at this time the outbreak in Klamath 
and Lrke Counties of Oregon was of such proportions that 25,000 pounds of 
bran mash was being distributed daily to hold the insects in check. In 
July the outbreak in the Great Plains reached such proportions that it was 
recognized as a regional calamity and was said to have been the most serious 
of any grasshopper outbreak since the early settlers were demoralized by 
the invasion of the Rocky Mountain locust in the decade between 1868 and 
1878. During this month more or less serious trouble was reported from 
New York westward to Idaho, Nevada, and Arizona, and southward to Arkansas, 
Oklahoma, and Texas. The region of practically complete crop destruction 
extended from Sully and Stanley Counties in central South Dakota, south- 
eastward to the Nebra.ska. State line, extending into the northern part of 
Nebraska in Keyapaha and Soyd Counties. Very severe damage, although not 
so complete, surrounded this area, extending northward into North Dakota 
and the northwestern corner of Minnesota, westward to Montana and north- 
eastern Wyoming, across Nebraska into the northeastern corner of Colorado, 
southward into northern Kansas and west-central Missouri, and eastward into 
central Iowa. Another very badly infested area was that in northern Cali- 
fornia and southern Oregon, centering around Klamath Lake. Species most 
seriously involved in the Plains region were Melanp-plus bivittatus Say, M. 
differentials Thos. , M. mexicanus Sauss. , M. femur- rub rum DeG. , and Camnula 
nellucida Scudd. The trouble continued throughout most of August and Sex>- 
tenber. Toward the end of the latter month egg laying started and the dep- 
redations were -oractically completed. 
CUTWORMS 
The very warm weather of late January and early February resulted in 
the early appearance of cutworms (Noctuidae) in the lower Mississippi Val- 
ley and the pacific Northwest. As the spring advanced reports of damage 
were received from oractically all parts of the United States, the dama.ge 
being particularly noticeable in the South Atlantic and Great Plains Stat„ 
During June the variegated cutworm (Lyco pho tia margarito sa, saucia Hbn. ) be- 
came very destructive in the West Central States over an area extending from 
southern Nebraska, across Kansas, into Oklahoma and Arkansas. These out- 
breaks were followed in July by similar outbreaks in the North Central 
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