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GENERAL FEEDERS 
GRASSHOPPERS (Acrididae) 
J. R ".Tats on (September 23): Grasshoppers arc doing con- 
siderable domegc to citrus over Plorida. 
H. C. Scverin (August 30): The outstanding outbreak in 
South Dakota at the present time is an outbreak of grasshop- 
pers. Helanoalus f emur- rub rur.v DeO. , M. dif f orentialis Thoa. 
m. bivittatus Say, and M. at! mis Riley are very abundant in 
Lyman, Jones, Jackson, Pennington, Meade, Stanley, Hughes, 
Haakon, Buffalo, 3rulo, and Gregory Counties, attacking 
alfalfa chiefly. 
K. H. Svonk (September 3): Oaring the first half of August 
grasshoppers continued to be numerous and injurious in vege- 
table and flower gardens in the vicinity of Lincoln and 
around parts of Omaha, Jrcmont, Columbus, Kearney, and clSw- 
whero in the Platte Valley.. -Souse damage to alfalfa -/as re- 
ported from Thayer County late in August. Injury was seriate 
in come alfalfa fields in south/ester/. :Jebraska from Banner 
and Deuel Counties to Cease and Hayes Counties. Some appre- 
hension is felt by farmers in this area that the grasshoppers 
..iay do severe damage to the viator wheat planted this fall, 
as the insects are more numerous than usual at this time. 
S. Greene, jr. ,and L. 0. Baumhof or (September 2): Upon 
examination of yell 0*7 pine at the western edge of the planta- 
tions, a replant on the 1927 burn, vo found most of the trees 
dead. The heavy loss appeared to be the work of grasshoppers . 
Many of the trees had almost tae entire stem girdled, others 
had their stems cho"*od off above the ground, and still others 
had most of the foliage destroyed as fell as being partially 
girdled. A count of several ro'-s showed a loss of about 86 per 
cent out of 1,200 tr^es examined while some of the remaining 
trees were partially injured in the part of the plantation 
examined. : Damage to this year's planting on another area 
appeared to be much lighter, •; robe- oly about one- third of the 
above. .This is tee most severe damage -of this type noted thus 
far since field work began at Halscy. A for grasshoppers 
caged with small seedlings have caused similar damage to 
these trees. Most of the destruction probably occurred in July 
as there *?as no damage when the plantation was examined in 
June a'/d there is little fresh *"'ork now. ; . Trees planted 
in the last two or three years are most susce :tible and yel- 
lof; -pine is damaged most severely. 
%. C. Sullivan (September 23): Grasshoppers are very abun- 
dant . The species include Helanoolus femur- rub rum DeG., h. 
cliff erent i alis Thos . , Ccnocephelus sp. , and Are hi a pseuho - 
nictana Thorn. 
