INSECT PEST SURVEY BULLETIN 
Vol- 5 September 1, 1925 No. 6 
OUTSTANDING ENTOMOLOGICAL FEATURES IN THE UNITED STATES FOR THE MONTH OF AUGUST, 1925 
The localized outbreaks of grasshoppers reported in the last number of the 
Survey Bulletin have developed to somewhat serious proportions in parts of the Middle 
Atlantic and East- Central States. 
The results of additional Hessian fly surveys have been reported from New York 
and Illinois. The New York wheat belt is much less seriously infested than was the , 
case last year. In the 16 counties surveyed the straw infestation this year is about 
1.5 per cent as compared with 5.9 per cent infestation last year. In central Illinois 
the situation is much more serious, the infestation there being much heavier than 
last year. 
The second brood of the chinch bug promises to do little damage in the Ohio 
River Valley and East-Central States. No serious chinch bug situation has developed 
in any of the important corn States. 
The corn eavssnamis again abundant over the northern limits of its range, 
being reported as asre derious than it has been since the last bad outbreak of 1922. 
The clover seed chalcid is doing considerable damage in the alfalfa-seed-pro- 
ducing sections of Arizona, as high as 50 per cent of the seed being destroyed in 
some fields. 
Codling moth infestation is reported as generally more prevalent than during 
the last three years in the East- Central States. 
Massachusetts and Ohio report unusual prevalence of the plum curculio, whereas 
reports from Georgia indicate that this pest is very well under control in that State. 
The potato leafhopper is producing serious hopperburn in the potato- growing 
sections of Ohio, Indiana, and Wisconsin. 
The Mexican bean beetle during this month has been found in two additional 
counties in southwestern D ennsylvania. It is now known to be present in five coun- 
ties in that State. 
Boll Weevil infestations in the infested areas have increased rapidly during 
the last fifteen days, owing to general field migration. The only serious injury so 
far reported is from southern Alabama, east-central Georgia, and the Coastal Plain 
section v of the Carolinas. 
Boll worm injury seems to be more prevalent than usual in the Mississippi 
Galley and Texas. 
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