S 3 C T PEST SURVEY 3 U L L E T I IT 
Vol. 6 Jane 1, 1926 No. k 
OUT STANDING- BHUOMOLOGICriL FEATURES IN THE UNITED STATES FOR MaY, 192o 
During the coming month careful observations should he made by all 
Survey Collaborators working in the regions where Brood XVII of the periodical 
cicada is due to appear this year. This is one of the problematical broods 
with but few well developed colonies ever reported. It has been reported 
from Virginia, Georgia, Iowa, and Missouri in past ye n rs. 
Brood "«." of white grub adults is due to occur in the east-central 
States, lather heavy flights have already been recorded from southern Illinois 
and parts cf Indian?.. Reports of unusual abundance, of the beetles have 
also been received from Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, and Mississippi, 
Cutworms still continue to be important factors in the insect damage 
of this spring, a very unusual outbreak of the variegated cutworm having 
been reported from Mississippi and Texas. 
Indications point to a rather serious Hessian fly infestation of wheat 
in Kansas 
Chinch bugs seem to "be unusually abundant in central and south-central 
Illinois, and -in parts of Kansas. The outbreak in Mississippi reported 
last year does not seem to be abating. Reports of unusual abundance have 
already been received from Tate and Marshall Counties in the State. 
Telegraphic communication dated June 4 informs us that the fall armyworn 
is appearing in enormous numbers and defoliating corn, cene, sorghum, 
alfalfa, etc. , in southern Louisiana. 
Aphids attacking deciduous fruits still continue to bo unusually scarce 
in the New England and Middle Atlantic States, extending westward to 
Missouri. South of North Carolina aphid s seem to be normally abundant. 
The tent caterpillar is being reported as unusually abundant from th 
Connecticut River Valley westward into New York State, and southward t 
Virginia. 
The corn ear worm has practically destroyed the peach crop on a 4,000- 
tree plantation in Georgia owing to a failure to turn under a hairy vetch 
crop early in the season. 
One of the most serious insect outbreaks en pecan that has come to 'the 
attention of the State Entomologist of Mississippi is the outbreak of the 
cambium curcplio, Ccno trachelus an aglypticus Say, reported from the Pearl 
River section of that State. 
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