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GENERAL FEEDERS 
GRASSHOPPERS (Acrididae) 
United States. P. N. Annand (June IP): The hatching of grasshopper eggs 
in the severely infested northern Great Plains States lias been greatly 
retarded by unfavorable weather but has resulted in little or no mor- 
tality. Hatching is now in progress in these State? and is nearly 
comoleted in Michigan and Wisconsin, where the use of noisoned bait 
will be started ^ithin a few days. Some ra.ther heavy reduction in in- 
festation has occurred in the Dakotas as a result of the attack of 
beefly larvae, which are predacious on the eggs. The infestation in 
general is not nearl-"- so serious as last year and is limited to the 
areas not completely baited last year or where infestption was in- 
creased by migration from outside areas. Extensive control operations 
apve been under way in California, for some weeks, the most serious out- 
breaks in the State being limited to Imperial and San Diego Counties 
in the south and to Siskiyou County in the north. 
Maine. H, B. Peirson (June 12): Severe injury to 20 acres of corn and 
hay at East Baldwin, in Cumberland County, reported. 
Vermont. H. L. Bailey (June 2U): Grasshomers, chiefly Melanoolus mexi - 
canus Sauss., reported as abundant in the Connecticut River Valley in 
Windham County. Very few found on investigation in Connecticut Valley 
district of Orange County, where grassho oners have been extremely 
abundant in previous outbreaks. 
Georgia. 0. I. Snao-> (June 1): Gras shooters, nrincinall""' M. femur - rub rum 
DeG. , caused considerable damage to a peach cro*o at Thomaston early 
in June. 
Wisconsin. E. L. Chambers (June 20): A survey made during the past week 
showed that the M. mexicanus that hatched 3 weeks ago were oretty well 
thinned out by cold, wet weather, but Camnula -oellucida Scudd. was 
present everywhere in the light sandy areas and Pastures, and averaged 
as many as 150 hookers per square yard. Host of them were a few days 
old, and $.0 -nercent of the eggs had hatched by June 12. 
Minnesota. A. G. Ruggles (June 21): Grassho~ners are just beginning to 
hatch. They are moderately abundant. 
North Dakota. J. A. lo.mro (June 23): The hatch of grrsshoo'^ers is about 
5 to 6 weeks later in the season than for 193" • On a State-wide trio, 
which I have just made, I observed that most of the hookers now hatched 
are in the first z.nd. second instars pn£ are remaining in their hatch- 
ing areas because of the luxuriant growth of grasses. Poisoning 
OT>erptions are under way in areas requiring attention. 
