I IT S E G 'T PEST H U E V E Y B U L L: E T I 11 
Vol. 4 J^-ilr 1. 1?24 _E1L.1 
O^JTSTA]^IDIUG MTOaOLO&ICAL ?S1TUEES IE TEE UtllTED STATES EOR JITiTE, 1524 
Pather serio-'os oufbreaks of arrajm'orms have already Deen reported from 
Illinois, southern Ilichigin, Indiana, and eastern lo-'.-^a, v;hile a sliglat ovtoreak 
is recorded in Missoxiri- 
Clitv7onii rava-:5es are generally severe from lle-r England and the Kiddie 
Atlantic States T/estvrard to Horth Dakota, ITelDraslca; I.iontana, and l^ansas. 
Grasshoppers are reported as injurious in Mississippi, llehrasla., Oklahoma, 
and Texas, as irell as in some parts of Liontana, Utah, and California. In the last 
State the damage is unus-aally severe. 
Wire"wonn-.: injury to ma.ny crops is reported from Llassachusetts southward 
along the Atlantic Coast to'lTev; Jersey and also from iTorth Dakota, South Dakota, 
IJetraska, Kansas, and Missouri. 
The Hessian fly is rapidly increasing in central Ohio and parts of Indiana, 
and a serious condition \Tith re^^rd to this insect is reported from ITorth Dakota, 
southeastern ITe'oraska, and eastern Kansas. 
The chinch hug is not as serious as anticiToated in Indiana aiid Illinois. 
There is still a serious infestation, hor/ever, in south'.7est8rn and north-central 
Missouri and along the southern border of ITehraska, '-estTrard to Jxirnas Co-onty, thence 
southvrard over eastern Kansas and northeastern Oklahoma. 
The joint"orn-: is reported as aoindant in central and east-central Tennessee 
and central and southern Illinois, Thile the -rheat stravrworm inj.ary is reported as 
severe in parts of Kansas. 
The corn earrrorm is a^^in epidemic as it was in 1921. Reports of serious 
damage to tomatoes, heans, cotton, and com ha.ve already "been received from, the 
South Atlantic States, '"westward to Te:cas. In the South Atlantic States, including 
Alabama, the pest has assuaed the arm.yrrorm habit and destroyed a very considerable 
ariOULit of vetch. 
Sprouting com is being rather severely dams.ged by the larva of the pale- 
striped flea-beetla, 3,nd many reports of injiory by the seed-corn maggot are being 
received from ITew York, v/estvrard to lo^a and Nebraslo.. 
« The rosy apple aphid is more abu:idant than usual in the Hew England States, 
south to Fev; York and 'j/estward to Missouri. 
The tent caterpillar is appearing in serious n-onbers in the Ne'rr Engla?id 
and the Middle Atlantic States, southrard to Maryland. 
The rose chafer is reported as very n■UI:^ero^^s in Fe:? England and a serious 
outbreak is occurring in southrestern Indiana and the greater part of Tennessed. 
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