GENERAL FEEDERS 
GRASSHOPPERS (Acri'liiae) 
Oregon Don C» Mote (February 20): Assistant County Agent Laurence 
of Klamath Falls reports about a thousand acres of grasshopper 
egg beds in that iistrict and expects a huge grasshopper out- 
break this season, 
WHITE GRUBS ( Phylloohaga sp. ) 
Missouri L. Haseman (February 24): Recent diggings in a blue grass sod 
orchard showed grub norms' to be unusually abundant and most of 
them at a r1 epth of less than 6 inches from the surface. To an 
area of approximately 4 square feet eight grubs "'ere taken from 
the first 6 inches of soil, all living, and two within the second 
6 inches of soil. 
JAPANESE BEETLE ( Popillia .iaponi ca Newn , ) 
GENERAL Monthly Letter of the Bureau of ', Entomology, No. 155 ( Jantary, 1928): 
STATEMENT During the '"inter months three shipments of parasites were re- 
ceived at the Moorestown laboratory. All of these '"ere Tiphia 
wasps in the cocoon stage, reared from ovipositions obtained on 
Popillia grubs at the different field laboratories. From Shillong, 
India, 9,000 cocoons of Tiohia No. 2036, a large percentage of 
which -^ere affected by fungus, were received in November, From 
Miho, Japan, 5,000 cocoons of Tiphia No. 1851, in very good condition, 
and 700 cocoons of Tiphia N .5, from Suigen, Korea, -hich '-ere 
largely attacked by fungus, arrived in December. From Pennin, 
China, 9,000 cocoons of Tiphia No, 11 5 arrived in January in very 
good condition. 
CEREAL AND FORAGE CROP INSECTS 
TTHSAT 
HESSIAN FLY ( Phyfrophaga d estructor Say) 
Pennsylvania C*C Hill and H, D, Smith (January 26): flheat fields so"'n in 
the fall of 1927 in the east-central part of the State are heavily 
infested v 'ith the Hessian fly and considerable damage can be 
looked for in this section. The southeastern and western counties 
are much more lightly infested. 
Maryland C. C, Hill and H, D. Smith (January 26): The young -heat is 
heavily inf este' 1 -ith the Hessian fly in many of the wheat- growing 
counties an! there are prospects of damage from the fly in the 
coming year. Only light infestations -ere found on the eastern 
shore. 
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