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GENERAL FEEDERS 
GRASSHOPPERS (Acrididae) 
Indiana. C. M. Packard and associates (September 18): Adults of Melanoplus 
mexicanus Sauss., M. diff erentialis Thos. , and M. femur - rubrum Peg. are 
from common to abundant everywhere around Lafayette. While working in 
experimental plots and wheat stubble fields noted some eggs in soil. 
Eggs have been unusually noticeable on automobiles, where hoppers have 
smashed against them. 
Illinois. W. P. Plint (September 2k) : Egg laying has been general for about 
3 weeks and is still going on. 7feather conditions have been very favor- 
able for the hoppers during the egg-laying period. Hoppers are now 
dying very rapidly, especially the differential grasshopper. 
Missouri. L. Haseman (September 25): Grasshoppers have been ovipositing 
now for some time in central Missouri but the peak of egg laying has not 
been reached. Adults are much less abundant over most of the State than 
during the summer, but indications are that a good supply of eggs is 
being deposited. Hoppers are damaging the margins of alfalfa and fall- 
seeded small grains. About half of the grasshoppers at this season 
are M- differen tialis , the other half being about equal numbers of M. 
■ femur - rubrum and M. mexicanus . 
Tennessee. G. M. Bentley (September 2): J. C. Moser reports large numbers 
of M. femur - rubrum in pastures in western Tennessee. 
Alabama. J. M. Robinson (September 25): Adult grasshoppers are attracting 
attention at Bessemer. 
Mississippi. C. Lyle (September 2U) : Grasshoppers were stripping about 200 
acres of soybeans at Cruger on September lU. Apparently most of the 
damage was being done by M. mexicanus . Dissosteira Carolina L. , M. 
differentialis , and M. femur - rubru m were also collected. 
Nebraska. M. H. Swenk (September 23): A delayed late-August and September 
hatch of grasshoppers, principally of the two-striped grasshopper (M. 
bivittatus Say), has caused some apprehension among farmers in Cass, 
Saunders, Gage, York, Nuckolls, and adjacent counties. 
Oklahoma. C. P. Stiles (September 25): M. differentialis still quite numerous 
along creeks and fence rows and in some parts of the State is damaging 
alfalfa. Most of the other species numerous earlier in the season have 
died. 
Colorado. S. C. McCampbell (September 21): J. R. Parker and R. L. Shotwell 
were with me last week investigating a heavy infestation of Pissostoira 
longipennin Thos. (commonly lenown as the long-winged locust of the 
plains), involving 100 square miles of southeastern Colorado. Part of 
this area is heavily infested with eggs, as many as 1,600 per square 
foot having been estimated in some parts of the fields. 
