INSECT PEST SURVEY BULLETIN 
Vol. 5 August 1. 1^2R No - 6 
August 1, 1928 
OUTSTANDING ENTOMOLOGICAL FEATURES IN THE UNITED STATES FOR JULY, 1928 
The grasshopper outbreak anticipated in the last number of the 
Survey "bulletin has developed to quite serious proportions in western 
South Dakota, Nebraska, and Kansas. 
Throughout the greater part of the country cutworms continued to 
be of but little importance during July. During the latter part of June 
and the early part of July, however, an unusual amount of damage was oc- 
casioned by them in Maine and quite a severe outbreak de\eloped on the 
overflowed land in the northern Willamette Vrlley In Oregon. 
The fall armyworm became extremely abundant in parts of Texas dur- 
ing the first week in the month and about the middle of the month it 
was repotted as doing serious damage in many localities in Mississippi. 
The rose chafer appears to be unusually troublesome this season 
in several more or less isolated localities in the Northern and Central 
States, reports of serious damage having been received from New York, 
Indiana, 'Wisconsin, and Nebraska. 
The abnormally large number of wireworm reports recorded in the 
last number of the Survey bulletin is augmented this month by reports 
of heavy damage from Maine, New York, Kansas, and Nebraska. 
Since the low ebb in abundance of chinch bugs, which occurred 
tween 1917 and 1919, this insect has not reached so low B population 
record as is reported this year. 
The wheat stem maggot I earing in epidemic force in South 
Dakota, Nebraska, and Kaneae. Tbi i it &i& v.orr. rid tl I th 
worms are both very materially incr^ number Jhio. 
The sugarcme borer appi bnormally I i€ this year in 
the cane section of Loui 
The codling moth adults of the first brood are emerging coa i- 
bly later than last year in the Ohio River V a lley and East Central 
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