SECT PEST SURVEY BULLETIN 
Vol. 12 t 'Jap i, 1932 ITo. 3 
TEE MORE IMPORTANT RECORDS EOR APRIL, 1932 
Climatic conditions during the month of April were favorable for 
grasshoppers over the greater part of the heavily infested territory. 
Reports of the activity of those unimportant species which overwinter 
as nymphs were auite generally received from the entire Mississippi 
Valley. Up to the last ween in the month no hatching of Melanoplus or 
Cannula was reported. 
Cutworms, of. several species were appearing in limited areas over 
practically the entire countr". In the Everglades district of Elorida 100 
acres of sugarcane were stripped and tobacco was also being damaged in 
that State and in North Carolina. Alfalfa was being seriously damaged. 
over a large area in East-Central Nebraska by Eaxoa raessoria Harr. Here . 
the cutworm was assuming somewhat armyworm-like habits owing to its 
eno rm ou s numb e r s . 
3y the third week in April practically all Hessian flies in the East 
Central States had pupated; and during the latter half of the month there 
was some emergence in parts of this area. The extremely cold weather dur- 
ing the middle of March was evidently very disastrous to the pupae in the 
eastern part of this area, Ohio reporting that the insect was very diffi- 
cult to find in most parts of the State visited. In Illinois, Missouri, 
and ITebrasha, however, the insect -as still present in threatening numbers. 
In Illinois approximately 90 per cent of the larvae and papae have survived. 
Ig.j; laying was well under way in that section throughout the month, young 
larvae having ''oovr. observed in Missouri ^oy the 15th. 
Scattered oaf rather light flights of chinch bugs occurred during 
the first weeh Df the month in Illinois; and present indications are that 
these insects will be troublesome in central Illinois and Missouri. 
Pupation of the codling moth started in the Middle Atlantic, East 
Central, and Ueot Central States during the third week of April, at which 
time pupation was about one-third completed in the Pacific Northwest. 
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