Vol. 9 October 1, IS2G 
OUTSTANDING S3TCKCL0C-ICAL P3ATUIC3 I." THE 0HITHD STAT3S FOR SIPTI2£32R, 1S23 
No findings of the Mediterranean fruit fly have been reported during the 
month of September. 
The rather serious conditions with regard to grasshoppers reported in the 
last number of the Bulletin have developed into serious outbreaks in the Great 
Plains district of North Dakota and Montana. 
Serious depredations by wire^orms continued to be reported from scatter- 
ed localities over the entire country, the damage being particularly serious 
on the Pacific Coast. 
The very light Hessian fly infestation reported from Nes* York State 
last month apparently extends westward through Ohio. The detailed summary 
of the Illinois su.rvey, on the other hand, shone a very marked increase in 
infestation, the average of infer* tod straps for the State being about 15 
per cent. Hessian fly seems to be on the increase also in Missouri. 
Very serious depredations by corn root '.vorms have been reported from 
Iowa and Nebraska. Large patches of corn are completely killed out in many 
districts and much corn which was not 2cilied was lodged on account of the 
destruction of the roots. 
The velvet bepn caterpillar is practically ruining the soy bean crop in 
southern Louisiana and along the eastern coast of Texas. The streaige feature 
of this outbreak is the fact that velvet beans and cowpoas adjacent to ruined 
fields of soy beans are practically undamaged. 
Cowpeas in the coastal plains district of the Carolines axe so seriously 
infested by the cov7pea curculio that many growers are net recovering their 
seed. 
• During August the alfalfa weevil was discovered in the vicinity of Bed- 
ford, Oregon. This appears to be a commercial jump as the nearest known in- 
festation is -ZOO miles distant in eastern Oregon. This insect was also found 
for the first time in Alpine Cour/,y x California, this being an extension of the 
Carson Valley, Nov., area. 
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