INSECT PEST SURVEY BULLETIN 
Vol. 16 July 1, 1936 No. 5 
THE MORE IMPORTANT RECORDS FOR JUNE 1936 
The occurrence of grasshopper outbreaks in the Central and V/estern 
States is probably the most serious insect problem that developed during the 
month. Grasshoppers were reported in destructive numbers from Michigan and 
northwestern Indiana, westward through the northern two-thirds of Illinois 
to the Great Plains States, including eastern Colorado, and southward to Ark- 
ansas and Oklahoma. The most seriously infested States are Iowa, Nebraska, 
Kansas, Oklahoma, and Colorado. The general and widespread occurrence of these 
outbreaks prompted Congress to appropriate $250,000 to enable the Bureau to 
cooperate with States in a campaign for control. Serious grasshopper trouble 
was reported also from Utah and north-central California. 
Cutworms were especially abundant throughout the greater part of the 
country during the early part of June. Many species were involved. 
Scattered reports of serious wireworm injury were reported along the 
South Atlantic States and into the Gulf Region, with similar reports coming 
from tha Mississippi Valley and the Groat Basin. 
Throughout the New England States and westward to Michigan, rose 
chafers did considerable damage to flower gardens and fruit, with occasional 
reports of young poultry being killed from eating the beetles. 
Rather heavy infestations of wheat by hessian fly were reported from 
New York westward to Iowa; however, little commercial damage was reported 
over most of the region. 
Although the chinch bug was reported as somewhat abundant from Virginia 
westward to Nebraska and Oklahoma, little damage was reported in the eastern 
part of this region. Some damage was reported from eastern Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, 
and Oklahoma. A small localized outbreak of this insect also occurred in 
Northampton County, Va. 
The stalk borer was unusually abundant from Indiana westward to Minne- 
sota and Kansas, the larvae damaging principally corn and tomatoes. 
In the southern Mississippi Valley from Tennessee to the northern half 
of Mississippi damage by the sugarcane beetle to corn was reported. 
Prom the Hudson River Valley of .New York southward to Virginia and 
West Virginia the rose leaf beetle was probably th» most serious°pest to flower 
gardens and berry crops. 
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