INSECT PEST SURVEY BULLETIN 
Vol. 16 October 1, 1936 No. 8 
THE MOKE IMPORTANT RECORDS FOR SEPTEMBER 1936 
Grasshoppers were dying off rapidly during the last week of September. 
A heavy oviposition was observed over most of the territory infested. 
The fall armyworm occurred in outbreak numbers from Virginia and Tennes- 
see southward to the Gulf. 
The wheat nidge in the Puyallup Valley of Washington has been found as far 
south as Puyallup, nearly 50 miles south of any previously known infested 
territory. In the older infested territory as high as 50 percent of the wheat 
kernels were destroyed. 
Wheat stem sawflies have been abundant this season in the Middle Atlantic 
and East Central States, the infestation in Ohio being especially heavy. 
Corn ear worm, which has been "unusually scarce throughout the season, 
developed rapidly during September from New England and Iowa to North Carolina 
and Tennessee. Late corn and tomatoes were seriously damaged in many sections. 
This insect was also reported as doing commercial damage to tomatoes in Cali- 
fornia and Mississippi, and to lima beans in North Carolina. 
European corn borer has been found for the first time in Norfolk and 
Princess Anne Counties, on the mainland of Virginia. 
Chinch bug was moving into winter quarters during the last "2 weeks of 
September. 
Alfalfa caterpillar was reported seriously damaging sweetpotatoes in 
Tennessee and doing heavy damage to alfalfa in Colorado and California. 
The cotton leaf worm moths were reported as seriously damaging late peaches 
in Missouri and flights of this insect were reported from Connecticut. 
Heavy late boll weevil infestations were reported along the Atlantic sea- 
board and considerable damage was being done in late fields. 
Defoliation of cotton by leaf worm was quite general throughout the Cotton 
Belt. Late cotton also suffered from bollworm depredations. 
A serious outbreak of the eastern spruce beetle was reported from the 
Green Mountain National Forest in Vermont. Over 90 percent of the merchantable 
spruce in limited areas has been killed. 
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