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GENERAL FEEDERS 
GRASSHOPPERS (Acrldidae) 
Florida 
J. R. Watson (April 26) 
abundant . 
Grasshoppers are moderately 
South Dakota 
Utah 
Colorado 
llorth Carolina 
Florida 
Indiana 
H. C. Severin and A. L. Ford (April 22): Grasshopper eggs 
are abundant west of the Missouri River; also in north- 
eastern South Dakota. Trouble is expected in alfalfa- 
growing districts especially. 
G. F. Knowlton (March 29): A few half-grown grasshoppers 
were observed at Snowville today. These are the first I 
have encountered this spring. (April 23): Grasshopper 
nymphs which were in the first and second instar were 
collected west of Corinne, and at Snowville. Very few 
young grasshoppers have been observed up to the present 
time. (April 24): A few first and second instar nymphs 
of grasshoppers were observed in sugar-beet fields at 
Tremonton. 
G. F. Knowlton (April 12): An adult of the grasshopper 
Hibiscus coral lipes Hald. was collected at Skull Valley 
April 12, and nearly mature nymphs were collected at 
Grantsville, April 3, and at Cedar Spring on March 29. 
This form overwinters in the nymphal condition and is 
frequently present in damaging numbers in Tooele County. 
C. P. Gillette (April 22): The grasshopper Anabrus simplex 
Hald. is scarce in Routt County. 
CUTWORMS (Noctuidae) 
C. H. 3rannon (April 25): Cutworms are causing severe 
damage to tobacco and truck crops all over eastern North 
Carolina. In New Hanover County cutworms have caused con- 
siderable damage to lettuce by eating into the head. 
J. R. Watson (April 26): Cutworms are moderately abundant. 
J. J. Davis (April 28): Reports of cutworms are absent 
except for one outbreak reported in a greenhouse. The 
variegated cutworm ( Lycpphotia margaritosa Haw., var. 
saucla Hbn. ) reported damaging foliage of tomato and flowers 
of calla and carnation in a greenhouse at Decatur March 31. 
South Dakota 
H. C. Severin and A. L. Ford (April 22): 
abundant in eastern South Dakota. 
Cutworms are 
Missouri 
L. Haseman and P. H. Johnson (April 21): Two Or three 
species of cutworms seem to be unusually abundant. As yet 
no damage has been reported. 
