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GENERAL FEEDERS 
GRASSHOPPERS (Acrididae) 
Florida. J. R. Watson (September 21): Grasshoppers are very abundant. Several 
species are ragging young citrus foliage rather severely. 
Tennessee. G. M. Bentley (September 23): Schistocerea americana Drary was report- 
ed as numerous in western Tennessee although no damage seems to have been done. 
Slight damage has "been reported from middle Tennessee. 
Alabama. J. M. Robinson (September 20): Grasshoppers are very abundant at Auburn. 
Kansas. H. R. Bryson (September 23): Slightly less than normally abundant, but 
not scarce. No reports of injury have been received during the latter part of 
the summe r . 
Arizona. C. D, Lebert (September 18): The only insect pest of any great concern 
at the present time is lle lanopl us mexicanus Sauss. These hoppers are still 
fairly abundant in spite of the fact that drastic control measures have ceen 
applied to approximately 80,000 acres in the Salt River Valley. 
Nevada. G. G. Schweis (September 19): Grasshoppers have continued to do consider- 
able damage in widely separated portions of the State. 
WHITE GRUBS ( Phyllo-pha^a spp.) 
Illinois. W.. P. Flint (September 19): White-grub damage has been reported by the 
State Crop Reporters in 19 of the northeastern counties of 'the State. Injury 
in some sections is very severe. 
Wisconsin. C. L. Fluke (September 23): White grubs are very abundant, principally 
in southwestern 7/isconsin. Almost the entire southern half of the State has 
sustained injury by Brood A. Injury has been most severe in pasture lands, 
corn, strawberries, and young pine trees. 
Minnesota. A. A. Granovsky (September 2C) : White grubs this year caused enormous 
damage to corn, strawberry, potatoes, flax, raspberries, soybeans, sudan grass, 
and pastures. As it was expected the southeastern corner of t r ate sui-ered 
the most. 
A. G. Ruggles (September 21): White grubs are very abundar.* . 
Iowa. C. J. Drake (September 27): Injury is very widespread in the no part 
of Iowa, particularly in the vicinity of Iowa Falls, Waterloo, Cedar Rapids, 
Mason City, Charles City, and Hampton. At Lake Okboji, Waukon, Hampton, and 
Clarion the grubs did serious damage to the fairways in the golf courses. 
Several thousand acres of permanent bluegrass pasture and small grain fields 
have been badly injured or totally destroyed. The in: Lon is more 
widespread and serious than it has been heretofore in the State. 
Nebraska. M. K. Swenk (August 20 to September 21): A 1 Lster County 
was reported infested with white grubs and sod wetworms v^ : ' • -- lte 
grubs were reported working in a strawberry bed in Nuckolls County on September 
12. 
