INSECT PEST SURVEY BULLETIN 
Vol. 15 November 1, 1935 No. 9 
THE MORE IMPORTANT RECORDS FOR OCTOBER 1935 
The month of October was unusually favorable to grasshopper develop- 
ment. Damage to late crops is reported from Iowa to Arizona. Extensive 
flights are recorded from Kansas. 
The Mormon cricket was reported as abundant in parts of North Dakota 
and Idaho. In Idaho a nematode is infesting these insects in considerable 
numbers. 
During the second and third weeks in October there was heavy ovi- 
position by the hessian fly in central Indiana. 
The chinch bug was reported as going into hibernation in sufficient 
numbers to indicate possible damage next year from Indiana to Kansas and 
Oklahoma. 
Although the codling moth was reported as generally less abundant in 
the Eastern States, it was apparently more destructive than usual in the 
Sacramento Valley of California this year. 
The apple maggot was quite prevalent in Monmouth County, N. J. , with 
very heavy infestations in neglected orchards. 
The ros^r apple aphid developed its oviparous generation about 2 weeks 
earlier than usual in Virginia and is so abundant that an outbreak is ex- 
pected in that State next year. 
Heavy infestations of truck crops by the southern green stink bug 
were reported from Florida and Alabama. 
Very heavy infestations of tomatoes by the corn ear worm were re- 
ported from the Gulf region to Kansas and westward to California. In some 
fields in central California as high as 25 percent of the tomatoes were 
infested. The tomato pinworm was also very abundant on tomatoes in parts 
of California. 
A leaf folder, Pachy zancla periusaiis Walk., was reported as seriously 
damaging plant-bed tomato plants on the Gulf coast of Mississippi. 
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