INSECT PEST SURVEY BULLETIN 
Vol. 9 June 1, 192S No. 4 
OUTSTANDING ENTOMOLOGICAL FEATURES IN THE UNITED STATED FOE MY, 1929. 
During the past month only throe additional counties contiguous to 
the territory recorded in the last number of the Survey Bulletin have been 
added to the area known to be infested by the Mediterranean fruit fly in 
Florida. Infested Florida fruit has been intercepted in New York, Ohio, 
North Carolina, Georgia, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Texas. 
The first adult of Brood III of the periodical cicada was recorded 
from Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, on May 28. 
Heavy oviposition by grasshoppers took place last fall in the west- 
ern part of North Dakota and South Dakota. Although no eggs had hatched by 
the middle of May, trouble is anticipated in that region. 
7,'ircworm depredations continued to be reported from practically 
the entire United States. The -hew species of v'ireworm He^eroderes laurentii 
Guer. is appearing in southern Alabama more numerously than during the past 
several years. Very serious wireworm depredations by Pheletes spp. have 
been reported from Idaho and California. 
Although but little trouble is being reported over the greater part 
of the Hessian fly territory, southern Illinois and Indiana are experienc- 
ing a very severe infestation by this insect. In parts of Illinois 51 per 
cent of the plants are infested and in Indiana much of the grain acreage 
is being plowed under. 
Reports from the Gulf region of extreme abundance of the corn ear 
worm this early in the season may lead to unusually heavy infestations 
farther northward as the season advances. 
The fall armywonn is reported quite generally over the Gulf region 
from Florida to Louisiana in epidemic numbers. 
Fruit aphids, in general, ore not so abundant as usual, e::ceot in 
Oregon, whence reports of severe infestations have been received. 
No change in the normal abundance of the codling moth reported in 
the lost number of the Bulletin has apparently token place during May. 
-IDS- 
