INSECT PEST SURVEY BULLETIN 
Vol. 17 April 1, 1937 I T o. 2 
THE MOKE IMPORTANT RECORDS POR MARCH 
Reports from Missouri, Oklahoma, and Colorado indicate that grass- 
hoppers passed the winter with very little mortality. Eggs are present in 
large numbers in practically every county in Missouri. In the Imperial 
Valley of California Mel anopl us mexic:-nus Sauss. "began hatching the third 
week of March. 
Mormon crickets began hatching during the month in Montana, Colorado, 
and Utah. 
A heavy northern flight of the Monarch butterfly was observed in 
Ventura County, Calif. 
Wireworms were reported in destructive numbers in parts of Louisiana, 
Colorado, and California. 
Winter mortality of chinch bugs in Missouri is reported as very low. 
The outbreak of the green bug in parts of the Southeast is rapidly 
terminating. Similar conditions are reported of an outbreak in north- 
central Oklahoma. 
The codling moth is reported as having "passed the winter with but 
little mortality in Georgia and Missouri, whereas in Idaho only 10 percent 
of the larvae survived the winter in th<j southwestern Dart of the State, 
where temperatures reached 28° below zero late in January. 
Winter mortality of the San Jose scale was reported as below normal in 
Virginia and Georgia. In the Midwest and Pacific Northwest the carry-over 
was comparatively light. 
Although the plum curculio beg-n to emerge earlier than usual in parts 
of Georgia, the main emergence from hibernation is decidedly behind the bloom- 
ing of peach trees in that section. 
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