INSECT PEST SURVEY BULLETIN 
Vol. 18 April 1, 1938 : No. 2 
THE MORE IMPORTANT RECORDS EOR MARCH 
Throughout the upper Great Plains region grasshopper eggs are still in 
good condition and hut very little winter mortality has "been reported. In 
the more southern States of Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, and Arizona, and in south- 
ern California as high as 10 percent of the eggs have already hatched. 
Mormon crickets started hatching in mid-January in Nevada. By the end 
of February they wore hatching in parts of Montana, and in March we received 
reports of hatching from Wyoming, Utah, and Washington. 
May "beetles were ohserved at lights in Mississippi and Louisiana dur- 
ing the latter half of March. It is estimated that UOO.OOO acres of wheat 
have "been destroyed hy white grubs in south-central Kansas. Heavy damage is 
also reported in parts of Oklahoma. • 
The army cutworm is "becoming numerous in parts of Kansas and Oklahoma. 
Heavy flights of armyworm moths were ohserved late in March in Vir- 
ginia, Indiana,. Missouri, and Oklahoma. 
Observations late in March indicate that the chinch hug has passed 
the winter very successfully in Illinois, Iowa, and Oklahoma;. In the latter 
State rather heavy flights were ohserved on March 25 during a period of high 
temperature. 
A local outbreak of green hug was ohserved near Stillwater, Okla. , 
and in the southwestern part of the State. This insect was reported as do- 
ing considerable damage in northwestern Texas. 
Light infestations of hessian fly are recorded from Missouri and 
Kansas. 
Corn ear worm eggs were found in central Texas during the third week 
in March. This insect is also recorded as having passed the winter suc- 
cessfully on Long Island, N. Y. , and in Utah. 
The pea aphid was reported as present in alfalfa during the last week 
in March in Virginia, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Texas, and Washington. 
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