-. /. iThRfui-- .-c; fbuit Sit" 
The entomological feature of most enerrl concern for the past 
season was the discovery of the Mediterranean fruit fly ( Cer^ titis 
cpoitpta Vied.) T'ell'. established in a district of considerable size in 
central Florid? . On April 6 the first specimens were discovered at 
Orlando and by May 1 it has been found in the six counties contiguous 
to Orange County. By June 1 the insect had been found from Putnam 
County on the north to Brevard, Osceola, and Polk Counties on the south 
and from the Atlantic co^t ~cst'~-rd to Sumter County. During hay and 
June infected Florida fruits which :..-d been se.i;ped from that State before 
the Federal quarantine ra.s issued on April 26 "'er: found, in several 
eastern cities from Georgia nort-T~srd to F_~ York snd across the Gulf 
Coast to Texas. In June a number of additionrl lightly infested points ia 
Florida fere discovered extending the knom infested district northward tc 
St. Johns County and westward to the Gulf near Tampa. Durin- July but 
little additional territory was found to be infested, and no infested 
Florida fruit was reported during this month from outside of the State* 
During August only eight, properties were found infested, and between 
August 27 and the end of the year but one infested fruit was found 
throughout the entire known previously infested district. The very 
remarkable eradication campaign has been very amply treated in other 
publications. 
GRASSHOPPERS 
During, June rather intense infestations of grasshoppers (Acridida.e) 
occurred in central Nebraska and in the Gulf States, and the eastern 
lubber grasshopper ( Romaic a microptera 3eauv_. ) ""as doing considerable 
damage in scattered localities. As the season advanced, limited out- 
breaks developed in southern Uorth Dakota and parte of South Dakota, and 
small outbreaks over a ^ide district in central Texas were reported. 
During the late summer these insects became quite generally destructive 
over the greater part of the East Central, ;.7est Central, and iTorth 
Central States and inflicted rather neavy damage in scattered localities 
throughout the region of the Rocky Mountains and the Great 3a§in. By 
the end of the season outbreaks had developed in the Great Plains area 
of ITorth Dakota and Montana, producing a rather serious prospect for 
next year. 
'7HITh GKU3S 
The situation regarding white grubsn ( Phyllophaga spp.) was as a 
whole, very favorable, little damage being reported from any suction 
of the country. Defoliation by the be .ties in - radically all of the 
upper Mississippi /alley, /art/. Central, and _est Central States 
indicates the possibility of a more serious situation next year. 
