INSECT PEST SURVEY 3ULLETIN 
Vol. 11 November 1, 1931 No. 9 
SUTSTANDING ENTOMOLOGICAL FEATURES IN. THE UNITED STATES FOE OCTOBER, 1931 
Despite the very late appearance of the cotton leaf worm in the Gulf 
Region, the moths of this insect did some damage to fruit in central Mis- 
souri and southeastern Nebraska. The only other records we have of flights 
of the moths into the North was a report from Michigan that a single speci- 
men was collected on October 21 at Shelby. 
The plains false wircworm is doing considerable damage to the newly 
planted wheat in western Kansas. 
The Asiatic beetle severely damaged lawns at points in Connecticut and 
Hew York. 
Soil surveys made during September indicate that the Japanese beetle 
infestation is definitely heavier than it was this spring in the Moo res- 
town district in New Jersey, and in the Jenlcintown district in Pennsylvania. 
These surveys further indicate that this insect is generally distributed 
as far northward as Plainfield and Metuchen,N. J., ^ife localized Colgate's be- 
yond this region. 
Grubs of the scarahsedd Ochorosidia villosa Bum. were reported as 
having very seriously damaged the turf on the fairways of a country club 
at Baysidc, and lawns at Lawrence and Uoodmere in New York. We also have 
a report of a lawn being ruined by this insect in the suburbs of "washing- 
ton, D. C. 
In the East Central States an unusually heavy emergence of the Hessian 
fly occurred in September. In most places, however, this was too early to 
infest the wheat sown after the fly-free date. Volunteer wheat, though 
scarce, is heavily infested. 
The corn ear worm persisted extremely late in the Northern States. In 
Maine this insect was more numerous than has been observed in the past ten 
years, and similar reports of unprecedented infestations occurred as far 
west as Wisconsin, Minnesota, South Dakota, and Iowa. It not only damaged 
late sweet corn but also ate the mature field corn and did very considerable 
damage by entering greenhouses, where the larvae attacked practically all 
forcing plants. 
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