INSECT PEST SURVEY BULLETIN 
Vol. IS May 1, 1938 No. 3 
THE MORE IMPORTANT RECORDS POR APRIL 
The outstanding event of the month was the outbreak of the army- 
worm and the variegated cutworm in northwestern Mississippi, northeastern 
Louisiana, and oast-central Arkansas. Oats and alfalfa were the prin- 
cipal crops injured. 
The unseasonably cool rainy weather the second week in April and 
the continued unfavorable weather delayed hatching of grasshopper eggs 
over much of the infested territory; however, some hatching has taken 
place in Utah, southeastern Colorado, and northwestern Texas, and is 
practically complete in Oklahoma and Missouri. 
Eggs of the Mormon cricket have hatched throughout Montana. 
Damage by cutworms was reported from many localities, the most 
injurious being the variegated cutworm in the Delta counties of Missis- 
sippi and Louisiana and the army cutworm in western North Dakota. 
May beetles were observed at lights as far north as Chadbourn, 
N. 0,i La Payette, Ind. , and Kansas. Only moderate injury was reported 
generally but pecan buds in Georgia were severely injured. Injury by 
the grub of the green June beetle occurred in Kentucky, Tennessee, and 
Georgia. 
The spring brood of the hessian fly is emerging in Indiana. 'The 
insect in the pupal stage withstood abnormally low temperatures in Kan- 
sas the second week of the month. The infestation in Pennsylvania is 
light generally. 
The chinch bug has passed the winter successfully but has been 
slow in leaving winter quarters. The first noticeable flights occurred 
during the last 10 days of the month in Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri. 
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