EN-SE CT' PEST SUSVrf 3.ULLET IU 
Vol. 5 r . ? April 1,1926 .:. No„2 
OUTSTANDING ENTOMOLOGICAL FEATURES IN THD UNITED STAGES NOR MARCH, 1926 
The Hessian fly situation remains about as reported in the last number 
of the Bulletin. The first emergence cf the spring brood and the finding 
of eggs in the field sss reported on March lo from Kansas. 
The chinch bug situation has not material?.;/ changed since our last 
report, though it appears that in most of the chinch bug belt these insects 
pa s s e d t he ' wi nt er wi th s 1 i ght mor t al i t y . 
A single outbreak of the green bug has been reported this year from 
Logan County, Oklahoma. 
Small local outbreaks of false vire'-orms are being reported from parts 
of Nebraska a'nd Kansas. 
The army cutworm is unusually abundant in Nebraska, Kansas, and Oklahoma. 
In parts of Kansas and Oklahoma severe damage has already been reported. 
Another flight of the painted lady butterfly similar to the one reported 
in 192'!- is under way in California. Direction of flight was the same as 
during the other outbreak, that is, from the Southeast. 
Throughout the New England and Middle Atlantic States, and apparently 
also in the Mississippi Valley region, apple aphid eggs are generally less 
prevalent than usual. Reports of abnormally low egg counts have been received 
from Massachusetts, Nov; Jersey, and Miss our i» 
The plum curculio appears to be less prevalent than usual this year 
in the C-eorgia peach belt, 
A new pest of prunes is reported in this number of the Bulletin from 
Idaho, being a small moth ( Mi nee la scitulella Dyar). 
The weevil Gl^toscelis squamulata Crotch is again reported as doing 
damage in the Imperial Valley in California. This weevil was first reported 
as a pest of .-Trapes in the Survey Bulletin of May 5 .1922, at which time it 
was doing damage in southern Nevada. It was again reported last year, in 
the Coarhelia Valley of California. The damage is done by the adult beetles 
eating into the unfolding buds of the grapes. 
The citrus nematode T ylenchulus semipenetr ans Ccbb is reported forr 
the first time from Arizona. 
In parts of the State of Sinaloa, Mexico, the garden fleahopper is 
abundant enough to threaten the commercial tomato crops. 
