I II SECT PEST SURVEY BULLETIN 
Vol. 8 July 1,1928 
OUTSTANDING ENTOMOLOGICAL I .3 IN THE UNITED STATES FOB JUNE, 1928 
Although cutworms have not attracted an undue amount of atti ..- 
tion throughout the greater part of the country, a rather seri. u 
outbreak developed late in the month on the overflowed land in 
Arkansas, occasioning a call for Federal aid. The pale western 
cutworm is also occurring in threatening numbers ana coing v^-ry 
considerable damage in parts of North Dakota. Reports of lesser 
cutworm trouble were received from South Carolina, Mississippi, and 
Wisconsin. 
A severe grasshopper outbreak appears to be iev "oping in 
Kansas and Nob.-c.sN-a, but little grasshopper trouble is anticipated 
over the remainder of the country. 
Brood A of the white grubs is appearing in destructive numbers 
in Iowa, Wisconsinj Kansas, and eastward to Indiana. 
An unusually large number of wireworn reports have been rec 
this month from New England and the Middle Atlantic States south- 
ward to South Carolina an tward to Nisconsin and Kansas. In 
Illinois they nave already occasioned more dan age than in many years. 
An unusual outbreak of the corn and cotton •.•.•ire - 7orm was report - 
about the middle of the month from Mississippi. 
The Hessian-fly situation has developed a r ther Lous 
ct in Ohio and Nebraska. 
An unusual outb of the meadow plant bug . I ped early 
in the menth in Io a. In one case a jO-acre field of - - 
pletely : stroyed by this ini set. 
maggot i" appearing in abnormally rs 
in Iowa, , , In Ln 
suffering a loss of 30 per cent of tl t h 
The stalk borer 1 • tward 
to Iowa , .' , . I •. • to 
bo t . Lve or curious as last c, 
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