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foothills 6 miles west of Lehi. They are less abundant in most agri- 
cultural sections of northern Utah County. (May 19): Grasshopper 
nymphs are abundant in parts of the Leh:.~Cedar Valley area and some 
injury to wheat and garden crops has been observed. Injury to dewberry 
foliage was observed at Granite and Pleasant Grove. 
California. S. Lockwood (May 23): Undetermined species of grasshoppers are 
now causing damage in Butte, Sacramento, San Joaquin, and Solano Counties. 
MORMON CRICKET ( Anabrus simplex Hald. ) 
Utah. C. J. Sorenson (May 20): Mormon cricket outbreaks of third to sixth 
instars, have "been noted as follows: Oak Creek mountains and range, 
east of Oak City, north of Holden, west of Scipio, aiso in a few fields 
near Oak City, Millard County; foothills, canyon, and nearby dry- farm 
fields southeast of Nephi, Juab County; foothills and adjoining dry-farm 
alfalfa and wheat fields northwest of Fountain Green, Sanpete County; 
Settlement Canyon and nearby fields southeast of Tooele, Tooele County. 
CUTWORMS (Noctuidae) 
Virginia. W. S. Hough (May 19): Climbing cutworms are very abundant in a 
number of orchards and have caused much damage to young apple trees by 
completely defoliating them. On bearing trees defoliation has not been 
complete but considerable damage has resulted from the outbreak. In 
several orchards cotton bands have been used successfully to keep the 
larvae from climbing the trees and in some instances poisoned-bran mash 
has been used in addition to banding the trees. 
Georgia. 0. I. Snapp (April 29): Cutworms are more abundant than usual at 
Port Valley, especially in vegetable and flower gardens. They have cut 
down many little peach trees in our nursery. Precipitation during the 
spring has been considerably heavier than usual. 
Ohio. T. H. Parks (May 25): Some cutworm injury is reported to corn in 
central Ohio though the damage is not severe. Late plowing of corn land 
prevented the farmers from fighting this pest in the usual way and 
enabled more of the worms to survive. 
Indiana. J. J. Davis (May 23): Cutworms (Euxoa sp. ) were reported on May 15 
to be attacking apple at Bristol to the extent of at least $1,000 damage. 
The bronzed cutworm ( Nephe lodes emmedon ia Cram.) was reported from 
Aurora on May 19 as damaging bluegrass but not attacking any adjoining 
crops. 
Michigan. R. Hutson (May 9): Cutworms have been reported as being particulars- 
numerous at Big Rapids, South Haven, and Sodus. Adults of Agrotis c-nigruir 
L. have been very numerous at windows here in East Lansing. (May 20): 
Climbing cutworms are extremely abundant throughout the fruit district. 
Reports of extensive damage have been received from Hartford, Albion, 
Stockbridge, Charlotte, Grand Rapids, South Haven, Northville, St. 
Joseph, and Paw Paw. Additional infestations have been found at Hastings, 
Odessa, Mentha, Petoskey, and Lake City. 
