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INSECT i Z S T SURVEY B U L 1 2 T I N 
Vol. lU September 1, 193^ No. 7 
SHE MQZE IMPORTANT RECORDS 7CI: AUGUST I93U 
Although grasshoppers continued troublesome during the greater part of 
August , control campaigns arc practically closed in most of the Plains States. 
The garden webworm appeared in large numbers about the middle of the 
month from Indiana westward to Missouri and Nebraska. 
. Sod webworns were very troublesome during the latter half of the month 
from Ohio westward to Missouri and Nebraska, in many instances "being partic- 
ularly troublesome on golf greens. 
The white-lined sphinx appeared in outbreak numbers in parts of Iowa, 
being very destructive to soybeans. 
Reports received from Iowa indicate that the chinch hug will probably be 
an even more serious pest in that State in 1935 than it has been this year. 
It is estimated that over 11 million dollars worth of grain was saved in that 
State this year by the control campaign. Second-brood bugs were observed 
about the middle of the month in Missouri, Nebraska , and Kansas. 
The plum curculio will probably go into hibernation in larger numbers 
than usual in the Port Valley peach section of Georgia. 
The grape leafhopper is more abundant in the Niagara district of New York 
than it has been for several years. 
The tob.TCCO worn is causing serious damage to tomatoes in parts of Iowa, 
Nebraska, and Nevada. 
Table-stock potatoes in the irrigated section of Wyoming have been reduced 
65 percent by the tomato psyllid. 
The Mexican bean beetle has 1 ^een more abundant and more widely distrib- 
uted than ever before in Maine. Similar reports of infestations have been 
received fror: the New England an3 Middle Atlantic States, and it is reported 
to be moderately abundant throughout its range. 
Twenty-one additional townships in Washington, Penobscot , Hancock, and 
W'aldo Counties in Maine, have been found infested by the beech scale. 
Damage by screw worms is apparently on the increase in Florida and Missis- 
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