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year from the standpoint of. grasshopper abundance. In many localities 
enough eggs have been laid to provide 1 for an enormous possible increase 
if weather conditions should prove favorable. On the other hand, it is 
entirely possible that unusually warn weather in April may cause prema- 
ture hatching of the eg^s, or that a -prolonged period of wet weather 
after the normal hatching period nay so reduce their numbers as to wipe 
out the gains in population made .during the past season of weather fa- 
vorable to them." 1 
;,:o^:oii CRICKET 
The mormon cricket ( Anabrus sir/^lex Hald. ) appeared in very threat- 
ening numbers in Montana but \>y the end of July the outbreak was com- 
pletely under control. The serious outbreak in northwestern Colorado 
has also been brought under practical control by cooperative action of 
the State of Colorado and the Bureau of Entomology. The outbreak which 
formerly covered rather extensive are? 3 in Moffat and Routt Counties, 
Colorado, has now been reduced to the Blue Mountain section of Moffat 
County. This pest also damaged notatoes in Davis County, Utah. 
WHITE GRTJBS 
Many reports of defoliation, particularly of pecan trees, by May 
beetles, were received from Georgia westward through the Gulf region, 
and the larvae of these insects were reported as unusually numerous in 
the North- Central States during May. Injury 'ay white grubs continued to 
be serious in the North-Central States throughout the early summer from 
Indiana westward to Iowa .and Nebraska and northward into southern Minne- 
sota and '.Visconsin. This damage continued to be reported until the close 
of the season. 
WIREWORMS 
Reports of damage by wireworms were received from Florida and 
Mississippi during April, and as the spring advanced reports were re- 
ceived from practically all parts of the country east of the Rocky Moun- 
tains. In south-central and southern Illinois several thousands of acres 
of corn was replanted on- account of these insects, and similar damage 
occurred in parts of South Dakota. Wireworms attracted considerable atten- 
tion in the irrigated districts of southern* I daho during May. Although 
the sand wire-worm ( Ho ri stone tu s uhlerii Horn) did unusually severe damage 
to a variety of crops in South Carolina this year, the wireworm Monocre^icUtyj i 
ves-oertinus Fab. was conspicuously scarce in the bright tobacco district 
of South Carolina. 
1 J. R. Parker, Bureau of Entomology, U. S. D. A. 
