INSECT PEST SURVEY BULLETIN 
Vol. Id June 1, 1936 No. U 
TEE MORE IMPORTANT ENTOMOLOGICAL RECORDS EOR MAY 1936 
The periodical cicada "began emerging shortly after the middle of May, 
with the peak of emergence in the Middle Atlantic States occurring during 
the last week of May. Reports indicate that this "brood will reappear 
throughout the greater part of the territory infested. 
Grasshoppers were reported as "being extremely abundant in western, 
southwestern, and southern Iowa, and in parts of North Dakota, Nebraska, 
Oklahoma, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, and California. Reports received too 
late to ,"be included in the "body of the "bulletin indicate that young grass- 
hoppers are more abundant in the vicinity of Manhattan, Kans., and in 
central Illinois than they have "been for several years. 
The Mormon cricket was appearing in outbreak numbers in several 
counties in Utah, eastern Nevada, Oregon, Montana, and Idaho. 
Unusual numbers of cutworms were reported over a great part of the 
country, from Virginia and Georgia westward through the East Central States 
to Utah. In Utah, the pale western cutworm had occasioned a loss of over 
7,500 acres of wheat. An unusual situation developed in Mississippi, where 
the variegated cutworm from ditch "banks and adjoining alfalfa fields 
migrated into cotton, seriously damaging the stand. This species is also 
occurring in abundance in western Kansas. 
Cool weather protracted the period of wireworm injury in Washington, 
where considerable damage was done to truck crops. 
Heavy losses to evergreen seed beds occasioned by white grubs 
were reported from Wisconsin. 
The common rod spider emerged earlier than usual in the apple-growing 
sections of Washington, becoming so abundant as to require treatment. 
Chinch bug infestation in the East Central States is very spotted. 
In some localities populations are heavy enough to produce considerable 
damage. 
The spring brood of hessian fly was quite numerous in Indiana and 
Illinois. Considerable damage is reported from the western and southwestern 
parts of the latter State. 
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