INSECT PEST SURVEY BULLETIN 
Vol. 18 March 1, 1938 No. 1 
THE MORE IMPORTANT RECORDS FOR JANUARY AND FEBRUARY 
Examinations made in February indicate that grasshopper 
eggs have passed the winter with hut little mortality, accord- 
ing to reports from Illinois, Missouri, and Colorado. Mormon 
cricket has passed the winter successfully in Montana and Utah. 
Up to the third week in Eeoruary, however, no hatching had 
taken place. 
The pale western cutworm was hatching the middle of Janu- 
ary in Utah. 
Heavy infestation of white grubs on wheat was reported 
from Oklahoma. These insects are also doing some damage to 
asparagus in parts of Nebraska. 
Pamage to rutabagas by the sugar-beet wireworm is reported 
from California. Apparently the larvae fed throughout, the winter 
months. 
Throughout the chinch bug belt from Indiana to Oklahoma the 
bugs have apparently passed the winter successfully; however, 
the most critical period is yet to come. 
Owing to the mild winter, the alfalfa weevil has been re- 
ported as active in the infested parts of California and in 
parts of Utah. 
Reports from New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Michigan indi- 
cate that the codling moth has passed the winter with compara- 
tively low mortality. 
Reports from Georgia and Illinois indicate that the San 
Jose scale cane through the winter very successfully. In Georgia 
examinations made during the first week in February indicate that 
83 percent of the scale wore still alive. The infestation in this 
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