INSECT PEST SURVEY B 
JC, & 
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Vol. 12 
August 1, 1932 
No. 6 
THE MORE "IMPORTANT RECORDS IDE JULY, 1932 
The grasshopper situation has not materially changed over the greater part 
of the heavily infested territory. 
In the New England and East Central States white grubs were reported as ab- 
normally abundant, and heavy flights of beetles were reported from a number of 
localities within this area. 
The wireworm Heteroderes laurentii G-uer. has been found in two additional 
counties in Florida and five in Alabama. 
The armyworm was reported as very abundant in parts of Iowa. 
The fall Hessian fly survey in Ohio indicates a very material increase of 
this insect, the infestation being 12.5 per cent in 1931 and 35.5 per cent this 
year. It was also reported as being more abundant in Indiana and Nebraska than 
it has been in many years, and generally abundant in Michigan and Minnesota. 
The wheat stem maggot, probably associated with other wheat- stem insects, 
was said to be doing considerable damage in the North Central States. 
The chinch bug was reported as troublesome much farther north and east than 
it is usually considered a serious pest. Reports of damage have come from Penn- 
sylvania, Ohio, Nebraska, Michigan, and southern Minnesota. 
Over the greater part of the infested territory the oriental fruit moth was 
not doing much damage. 
The raspberry cane borer was reported generally from Maine, New York, and 
Michigan. 
The fall webworm was very abundant on pecan in the South Atlantic States 
and the walnut caterpillar was re-ported as defoliating walnut in the East Cen- 
tral States, westward to Kansas and Nebraska. 
The com ea.r worm was occasioning the usual damage for this time of the 
year over practically the entire eastern part of the United States. 
Many species of blister beetles were abnormally abundant on truck crops 
everywhere east of the Rocky Mountains. 
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