INSECT PEST SURVEY BULLETIN 
Vol.5 August 1,1925 2fo-5 
OUTSTANDING ENTOMOLOGICAL FEATURES IN TIE UNITED STATES FOR THE MONTH OP JULY, 1 925 
Grasshoppers, as a whole, are not causing any serious general devastation. 
Reports of unimportant and very localized outbreaks have "been received from the 
Middle Atlantic, East-Central, Upper Mississippi Valley, Great Plains, and Rocky 
Mountain States, as well as Mississippi and Texas. 
The Mormon cricket is doing considerable damage to alfalfa in Wyoming end its 
very abundant in the Uinta Basin in Utah. 
White grubs are'generally less pre^alant than last year in the East-Central 
and West-Central States. 
Reports of unusual abundance of cutworms continue to he received from practi- 
cally the entire country, extending from Maine to Florida and west?/ard to Oregon. 
Recent surveys indicate that the Hessian fly is less prevalent than last year 
in Ohio and Iowa, while on the other hand the poor wheat crop of Kansas is largely 
attributed to this pest, one county alone estimating the loss af 1,250 000 
bush.els. 
Th© whsat stem maggot is attracting considerable attention in Iowa, South 
Dakota, and Nebraska. 
The chinch bug is appearing as a pest in northwestern Ohio, the southeastern 
corner of Michigan, north-cer* trail Zanras, western and southwestern Missouri, and 
scatter ingly over Arkansas, It is still attracting much attention in Mississippi 
and Louisiana, in the latter Siate the outbreak being more widespread than ever 
heretofore recorded. A marked increase in chinch bug infestation is anticipated 
in Illinois. 
The com earworm is reported as unusually abundant in the southeastern States 
and seriously infesting corn and tomatoes in southern Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, 
and Louisiana. 
The stalk borer continues to Is reported as attracting an unusual amount of 
attention in New England and the East-Central States, the report© extending 
westward to Iowa, Nebraska, and Missouri. 
Small outbreaks of the armyworm are reported from New England and the Middle 
Atlantic States, Michigan, and lor.a. 
The gr.-pa colaspis is seriously abundant in Morgan, Jersey, and Scott Counties, 
Illinois, in some cases parts of cornfields being plowed up because of this 
infestation. This insect is also reported as attacking truck crops in Indiana. 
The corn root aphid is seriously prevalent in parts of the East-Central 
States. 
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