INSECT ?'• E ST SURVEY BULLETIN 
Vol. 13 September 1, 1933 No. 7 
TI-IS MORE IMPORTANT RECORDS JOB AUGUST, 1933 
The grasshopper situation in the northern Plains States continued serious 
through. August. Populations are heavy over much of this territory and unless 
unfavorable weather conditions prevail next spring the outlook for destruction 
by grasshoppers next year i-.s no re serious than it has been any previous year of 
the present outbreak. Outside of this nost heavily infested territory grass- 
hoppers were reported as unusually abundant in parts of Virginia, Oklahoma, 
Nevada, Arizona, and Utah. 
Important infestations of nomon crickets were reported fron parts of 
Montana and isolated localities in Nevada, Utah, and North Dakota. 
The fall armyworm appeared late in the month in Arkansas, Mississippi, and 
Texas. In Mississippi heavy damage was reported from several sections of the 
State. 
ISrood-A of the white grubs was rather heavily infesting pastures in Indiana, 
Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, and Missouri. 
The Asiatic garden beetle was more abundant this year and injury ouch more 
extensive than during any previous season in the Few York - New Jersey area. 
Another scarabaeid, Serica similis Lewis, was taken for the first time at Mill 
Neck, IT. Y. 
In this number of the Survey "ulletin are summaries of the Hessian fl; 7 " sur- 
vey in Ohio and Illinois. The infestations are much lighter than l?.st year, 
being 8 per cent in 1933 and 34 per cent in 1932 in Ohio, and 3.76 per cent in 
Illinois in 1933 and 29 per cent in 1932. 
The chinch bug appeared during the month in large numbers in parts of New 
England and Pennsylvania, far east of its normal habitat. It also continued to 
be unusually abundant north of the chinch bug belt in Michi -an, Minnesota, and 
Iowa. Within the chinch bug belt heavy populations --ere appearing from Ohio to 
Missouri indicating large numbers of bugs to go into hibernation and the possi- 
bility of outbreaks next year. 
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The corn ear worm was qu.it e generally reported as destructively abundant 
throughout practically the entire territory east of the Rocky Mountains. Along 
the Middle Atlantic and South Atlantic seaboard damage was quite generally severe. 
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