INSECT PEST SURVEY BULLETIN 
Vol. 10 August 1, 1930 Ho. 6 
OUTSTANDING ENTOMOLOGICAL FEATURES IN THE UNITED STATES FOR JULY, 1930 
Reports of more or less serious grasshopper trouble have been re- 
ceived Xtozz practically the entire country from Connecticut to Cali- 
fornia, and southward to Texas. Serious outbreaks have occurred in 
northeastern Colorado and parts of Wyoming, Oklahoma, Nebraska, and 
South Dakota. Grasshoppers are damaging sugar beets in Utah and small 
grains in southern California. 
Rather severe damage to alfalfa by the pale western cutworm is 
reported from the southern tier of counties in Nebraska and the black 
cutworm is doing considerable damage to corn and cotton in Mississippi. 
One of the periodical outbreaks of the white-lined sphinx occurred 
this year in parts of Wyoming and Nevada. The enormous numbers of 
caterpillars attracted considerable attention, though but little damage 
was recorded. 
White grubs are seriously abundant throughout southern ".Vis cons in 
and south-central Minnesota, westward into eastern Iowa, and Nebraska. 
As is to be expected with the extremely dry weather prevailing 
over much of the country, damage by the red spider is occurring from 
Virginia southward to Alabama and Mississippi and westward to North 
Dakota and Nebraska. 
The Hessian-fly situation in Ohio seems to be generally favorable 
except in Butler County in the southwestern part of the State, where the 
insect occurs in threatening numbers at the present time. The outbreak 
in southeastern Nebraska, although one of the cost intense recorded 
for that State, did not result in very decided crop losses owing to 
extremely favorable growing conditions. 
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