INSECT PEST SURVEY BULLETIN 
Vol- 7 September 1, 1927 No. 7 
OUTSTANDING ENTOMOLOGICAL FEATURES IN THE UNITED STATES FOR AUGUST, I927 
The European corn borer has "been found in eleven ne-7 counties in Ohio, 
extending from Ifercer County on the west -central border of the State to Madison 
County in the south-central part of the State; in three new counties (Kosciusko, 
Wells, and Adams) in Indiana; in two new counties in Michigan; in eight new 
counties in Pennsylvania, extending to the southern border of the State, and in 
the eastern part of the State to Northumberland and "ffyoming Counties; and in one 
new county in Ne-.v York State. 
V.hite grubs have been exceedingly destructive this season in the East- 
Central States extending from northern Indiana and Illinois westward to Nebraska, 
The fall armyworm has been generally prevalent in the Southeast ard lower 
Mississippi Valley, damage being exceedingly bad in the Delta region. 
Present indications are that the Hessian fly vail be luite serious in 
early planted wheat in Illinois, as the fly is well distributed and moderately 
abundant. The late summer survey in Maryland indicates that the fly is much 
more prevalent in the western part of the State than on the Eastern Shore. The 
State average on the -.hole, is high, being 21 per cent. 
Throughout the entire corn belt to the lower Mississippi Valley, the 
corn ear worm is doing the usual amount of damage to both corn and tomatoes. 
The chinch-bug situation, on the whole, is rather favorable, no serious 
damage having been reported from any part of the chinch-bug belt. 
In the "Jest -Central States the arniyworm is present in outbreak numbers. 
Reports of heavy damage have been received from South Dakota and Iowa. 
The spotted cucumber beetle is unusually destructive to corn in the south- 
ern part of the East-Central States from southern Indiana westward to Iowa, and 
southward to Missouri, the damage being particularly prevalent in the overflow 
areas along the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers. In areas north of this region, 
the corn root worm is attacking the corn and immediately -.vest of this area in 
western Nebraska Diabrotica virgjiferft, is attacking corn seriously for the first 
time in that State. 
The alfalfa weevil has been more destructive in eastern Idaho than any 
year since 1921. 
The Japanese beetle has been found this summer as far west as Uilkes- 
Barre and Gettysburg, Pa., and as far south as Washington, D. C. , and Cambridge, 
I.'d. , and as far northeast as Bridgeport, Connecticut. 
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