INSECT PEST SURVEY BULLETIN 
Vol. 15 May 1, 1935 No. 3 
THE MOKE IMPORTANT EJBCOEDS FOH APRIL 1935 
The lesser migratory grasshopper Qvielan oplus mexicanus Sauss.) 
was hatching in large numbers in Arizona during the second week in 
Aoril and was moving into alfalfa fields "by the third week of the 
month. The clear-winged grasshopper started hatching in southern 
California during the second week in April. 
Cutworms continued to he reported as serious pests throughout 
the South and northward to Delaware, Ohio, and Nebraska. 
Flights of June "beetles were observed during the third week in 
the month as far northward as Maryland, and the beetles were rather 
seriously damaging a varietv of crops in Mississippi during the latter 
part of the month. 
The chinch bug began scattering in hibernating quarters during 
the third week of the month, and by the last of the month flights were 
reported from Indiana, Illinois, Kansas, and Oklahoma. 
During the last of March and the first week of April outbreaks 
of' the green bug were reported from Georgia. 
The hessian fly is reported as occurring in large numbers in 
northeastern Oklahoma on wheat sown early for grazing. A heavy in- 
festation in volunteer wheat is also reported from Ohio. 
The successful hibernation of the corn ear worm at Arlington 
Farm, near Washington, D. C. , was reported during the month. 
The clover leaf weevil was reported as injuriously abundant in 
Ohio, Kentucky, and Kansas. 
An outbreak of the pea aphid in alfalfa in southern California 
was reported very late in March, and during April serious damage to 
peas was reported from the San Francisco Bay district of California, 
and indications of trouble from this insect were also reported from 
Nevada. 
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