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South Dakota 
Missouri 
Nebraska 
H. C. Sevorin (June 10): Grasshoppers are reported as already- 
severe on snail grain in Charles Mix, Brule, Tripp, Lyman, Mel- 
lette; Jones, Jackson, Hughes, Stanley, and Haakon Counties. 
Some trouble also in Perkins, Corson, Clay, and Bon Homme Counties. 
L. Easeman (June' 22): Waste places, meadows, and pastures 
are literally alive with grasshopper nymphs recently hatched, 
mostly apparently of the red-legged species (M. femur - rub run 
Dec). We are certain to have a real outbreak where steps are 
not token to destroy the nymphs. 
M. H. Swenk (Hay 15 - June 15): The outstanding entomological 
development in Nebraska during the period here covered has-been 
the outbreak of grasshoppers, nainly of the two- striped grass- 
hopper ( Melanoplus bivittatus Say) in Boyd and . surrounding coun- 
ties in the northeastern part of the State, this 'being a south- 
eastward extension into Nebraska of a general outbreak covering 
more than a thousand square miles in southeastern South Dakota. 
The first reports of damage in Nebraska cane from eastern Boyd 
County during the third week in May, when quarter-grown grass- 
hoppers were found in abundance attacking alfalfa and other 
crops, with the pests still hatching in numbers from the pastures, 
.hay meadows, and stubble fields. This outbreak extended during 
early June to include all of Knox, northern Holt and Rock, all 
of Boyd, and the eastern part of Keyapaha Counties. Three other 
areas of grasshopper trouble that have developed in Nebraska 
during the last few days of May and the first half of June 
include (1) a sandhill infestation in the valley alfalfa and 
oat fields from Greeley County -.vest to Grant and Arthur Counties 
and less intensely to Morrill County; (2) a southwestern in- 
festation from Perkins County south to Dundy County and east to 
Furnas County, in which area there is at this time promise of 
serious trouble in numerous localities during June and early 
July;: and (3) a similar area centering in Adams and Clay Counties, 
where the grasshoppers started hatching in abundance in early 
June and threaten damage. The damage in these three a.reas does 
not 'promise to be as heavy as in the northeastern area. The en- 
tire ' southeastern part of Nebraska, from Clay County east to 
* the Missouri River, and from Nemaha County to Washington County, 
is having an unusually large hatch of grasshoppers, with some 
damage already evident in alfalfa fields and in vegetable and 
flower gardens. 
Kansas 
Oklahoma 
Texas 
E. R. Bryson (June 17): Grasshoppers are reported doing some 
damage at Court land. 
C. P. Stiles (June 22): Various species of grasshoppers are 
very abundant in southern and southwestern Oklahoma. 
F. L. Thomas (June 23): Grasshoppers are moderately abundant 
in west central, northern, and northwestern Texas (57 counties). 
