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STATE PLANT BOARD 
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Vol. 12 
July 1, 1932 
No. 5 
THE MORE IMPORTANT RECORDS FOR JUIO, 1932 
Over part of the Great Plains area where grasshoppers were destruc- 
tive last year, wet weather has occasioned some disease among grasshoppers 
and materially advanced crops and other vegetation to such an extent that 
damage will undoubtedly he less severe than last year. In the northern 
part of this area, however, the weather has "been hot and dry and serious 
damage is anticipated where control measures have not been possible. 
The Mormon cricket appeared in outbreak numbers in southern Idaho. 
The pale western cutworm is doing considerable damage in western North 
Dakota and scattered localities throughout Montana. 
Armyworm infestations are quite generally distributed over Iowa, 
southeastern Nebraska, and eastern Kansas. 
The Hessian fly and the chinch bug situations have not materially 
changed since last month. 
Sod webworms are reported as quite generally prevalent from the south- 
ern Middle Atlantic States westward to Nebraska 
The rose chafer is reported in destructive abundance throughout New 
England, New York, Michigan, northern Indiana, and Nebraska. 
There was no material increase in abundance of the more important 
apple and peach insects. 
A European leaf curling apple midge ( Dasyneura mali Kieff.) is re- 
corded from Massachusetts. This appears to be the first American record. 
A cherry sawfly leaf miner ( Profenusa collaris MacG.) is recorded 
for the first time from the State of Michigan. 
The vegetable weevil is recorded from 9 previously unrecorded counties 
in Alabama and 1 county in Texas. This does not materially advance the 
general distribution of this pest. 
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