INSECT PEST SURVEY BULLETIN 
Vol. 17 July 1, 1937 No. 5 
THE MORE IMPORTANT RECORDS FOR JUNE 
The grasshopper situation has developed to serious proportions in Colorado, 
Montana, Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa, Wyoming, the Dakotas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas, 
Arkansas, Illinois, with less general outbreaks in New Mexico, Arizona, Calif- 
ornia, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Utah, and Michigan, 
Along the Atlantic seaboard, from Maine to Georgia, localized wireworm in* 
jury to potatoes, tobacco, and garden vegetables has been reported. On some 
farms in the shade-grown tobacco section of Connecticut, loss of newly set plants 
ran as high as $0 percent* Unusually severe damage to tobacco was also reported 
from North Carolina. Limited serious infestations by wireworms were reported 
from the East Central States and from Kansas, Idaho, and Oregon, 
White grubs were very numerous and destructive in the East Central States, 
from Ohio and Michigan to Kansas, 
Rose chafer damaged a wide variety of crops, occurring in outbreak propor- 
tions in New England and the Middle Atlantic States, westward to Michigan. 
In North Dakota the pale western cutworm has developed to such proportions 
in the western part of the State that as high as 75 percent of the seeded crops 
have been destroyed. 
Localized outbreaks of the beet webworm are reported from North Dakota and 
Utah, with an outbreak of the garden webworm in the eastern, half of Kansas, 
The chinch bug, in general, is not seriously abundant. 
Localized and serious outbreaks of armyworms occurred in Delaware, Mary- 
land, and Virginia, during the early part Qf the month. 
Two counties in NQrth Carolina — Edgecombe and Halifax— have been added to 
the territory known to be infested by the vetch bruchid. 
Peak flights of the codling moth occurred' during the last week in May and 
the first week in June in the Hudson River Valley, N. Y. , the infestation in 
this area being much heavier than last year. Moths of the first generation be- 
gan emerging in Georgia during the second week in June. The spring-brood flight 
in Yakima Valley, Wash,, reached its peak during the last week in May, which is 
afrout 10 days later than in 1936, 
The eastern tent caterpillar continued to be a serious pest in the New 
England and Middle Atlantic States. 
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