INSECT PEST SURVEY BULLETIN 
Vol. 9 July 1, 1929 No. 
OUTSTANDING ENTOMOLOGICAL FEATURES IN THE UNITED STATES FOR JUNE, 1929. 
The Mediterranean fruit fly has been found at a considerable number 
of new lightly infested points outside of the generally infested district 
in Florida during the month of June. These extend the known infested dis- 
trict northeastward to St. Johns County and southwestward to the Gulf near 
Tampa. In this number of the Survey Bulletin ia a map indicating the 
known infestation and a statement of the situation. 
Save for a rather intense infestation in central Nebraska, grass- 
hoppers are attracting but little attention this month. In the Gulf States 
the eastern lubber grasshopper is doing considerable damage in scattered 
localities. 
Accounts of wireworm damage have been received from practically all 
parts of the United States during the month and are occasioning consider- 
able concern in parts of New York, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Nebraska, 
and Washington. 
In the Middle '.Vestern States white grubs are very scarce, but re- 
ports of serious defoliation by May beetles have been received from practi- 
cally all of the upper Mississippi Valley and the North Central States. 
Cutworm damage has been generally very severe over practically the 
entire United States east of the Rocky Mountains. A large area extending 
over southeastern South Dakota, southwestern Minnesota, and northeastern 
Iowa seems to be a center of most serious depredations. 
The wheat straw worm has developed a general outbreak over the 
greater part of Kansas. 
The fall armyworm is now epidemic from Georgia to M.ississippi. 
Many thousands of acres of crops, especially on overflowed land, have been 
entirely destroyed. 
Damage by the corn ear worm is beginning to appear as far north- 
ward as Kansas and Delaware. 
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