INSFCT PEST SURVEY BULLETIN 
Vol. 4 November 1, 19 24 No. 8 
OUTSTANDING ENTOMOLOGICAL FEATURES IN THE UNITED STATES FOR OCTOBER, 1924 
We wish to express, in this the closing number of Volume 4 of the Insect 
Pest Survey Bulletin, our sincere appreciation of the continued support and hearty 
cooperation that we have received from our collaborators. We now have a force 
adequate to give a very satisfactory cross section of the entomological situation 
of the United States, and this cross section is being very rapidly realized. 
Within the next two months we will issue an index to this volume. 
During the month just passed white grubs have become decidedly conspicuous 
in the Ohio River Valley and in the Upper Plains region, southward to Kansas. 
The Kessian fly situation is very favorable throughout the greater part of 
the wheat belt. Planting after the fly-free date has been generally adopted over 
most of this territory. The situation is not so encouraging, however, in Kansas. 
The chinch bfcg as a whole has dropped into a position of secondary import- 
ance over most of its range, but heavy migration to hibernating quarters was observ- 
ed in parts of Kansas. 
The European corn borer situation is the most serious in the short history 
of this pest in North America. A general summary of the situation is contained 
in this issue of the Survey Bulletin. 
The Japanese beetle situation is very encouraging, the spread being much 
less than was anticipated earlier in the season, and in general extends but little 
more than one township beyond the area infested last year. 
The Oriental poach moth is now quite generally distributed over the eastern 
peach belt, and was seriously abundant during the past year in Pennsylvania and 
New Jersey. In eastern Maryland it was not nearly as severe as during 1923 and 
caused but little damage. In this number of the Bulletin is published the results 
of a recent survey made by the Bureau of Entomology, Federal Horticultural Board, 
and State Agri cultural agencies cooperating. 
A very heavy infestation of a green bud-mo + h ( Ar.'vroolo c e var iegana Hbn.) 
is reported from the Annapolis Valley section, Nova Scotia. This pest is not re- 
corded from the United States. 
The Mexican bean beetle is now recorded as covering practically the entire 
State of Ohio, eastward to the southeastern tier of Counties in Pennsylvania, and 
eastward into West Virginia and North Carolina. One of ttte interesting features 
of the spread of this insect has been the extremely small gain in territory to the 
south of the region originally infested in Alabama. The insect has swept north- 
ward and eastward to the Great Lakes, but has not yet reached the southern third 
of the State in which it was originally discovered east of its normal habitat in 
the Rocky Mountain Region. 
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