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Idaho 
of grasshoppers increased materially in many sections. This 
season parasites are few and grasshoppers are much more abun- 
dant. Injury is being done in many parts of Idaho, especi- 
ally to small seed crops, and it appears likely that damage 
will bo heavy and that extensive control measures will have 
to be undertaken. 
G. G. Schweis (August 20): Very abundant in the eastern 
part of the State. 
G. F. Knowlton (July 24): Very abundant 3 miles south of 
Joseph. 
H. J. Pack (July 27): Very abundant in Tooele County. 
0. L. Barnes (August 16): Grasshoppers are moderately 
injurious to the tender foliage of young citrus. 
WIBEWORMS (Elateridae) 
M. H. Swenk (July 15-August 1): Melanotus cribulosus Lee. 
was reported in corn roots the last half of July from Richard- 
son and Madison Counties. 
C '.Vakeland (August 20): Heavy losses have occurred to 
potatoes and corn as well as extensive injury to grains and 
other crops on which it is more difficult to tabulate losses. 
Many cornfields in southwestern Idaho have been planted two 
or three times and some of them abandoned, and an many fields 
the stand is 50 per cent or less. In a potato field examined 
last week, 5 carloads of rurals were dug on 12 acres. Of 
these, 1 carload graded U. S. No. 1, and 4 cars graded No. 2. 
The grower received for the car No. 1, $600, and for the 4 cars 
No. 2, $900. The reduction in grade was due entirely to wire- 
worms, a loss of $1,500, or $125 per acre. This is typical of 
what is happening in many other instances. 
Washington 
California 
North Dakota 
■i. W. Baker (August 21): 
Grays Harbor Counties. 
Moderately abundant in Pierce and 
E. 0. Essig (August 21): Moderately abundant. 
BERTHA ARMY7/"0RM ( Barathra configurata Walk. ) 
J. A. Munro (August 7): There is an outbreak in Holette 
Towner, Cavalier, Pembina, Walsh, and R a msey Counties, and an 
isolated outbreak in 'tf a rd County. Fields of flax showed 
about 15 per cent injury and some sweet-clover fields cwere 
totally destroyed. In 1928 only Rolette and Towner Counties 
were seriously infested. It is very dry this season, which 
is a reverse of last. (August 23): Nelson, Grand Forks, and 
Burke Counties have been added to the list in which outbreaks 
are found. 
