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GEUSEAI P E E D 3 R S 
GRASSHOPPERS (Acrididae) 
P. S. "Chamberlin (October 8): Grasshoppers, mainly Melanoplus 
sp. , are more abundant than usual in Gadsden County for this 
season of the year. 
J. R. Watson (October 25): Grasshoppers are moderately 
abundant and are doing considerable damage to young citrus 
trees in the northern and central parts of Plorida. 
J. J. Davis (October 24): Grasshoppers were reported abundant 
and destructive in tomato fields at Sulphur Springs, Henry 
County, October 7. 
W. P. Hint (October 24): While grasshoppers were only 
slightly more abundant than usual in the State this year, they 
have had ideal conditions for egg ...laying during the fall and 
we anticipate serious damage next year. 
C. Benton (September): Grasshoppers are locally abundant 
near Payetteville but no commercial damage has been reported, 
largely owing to the fact float on account of drought the usual 
September plantings of small grain and legumes were not made. 
Much volunteer wheat has been eaten up by them. 
E. 1. Chambers (October 27): Grasshoppers are moderately 
abundant but still quite numerous in certain sections. 
A. G. Ruggles (September 25): Grasshoppers are gradually 
dying off, but egg laving continues by those left, on sides 
of roads, ditch banks and edges of fields, and parts of 
"oa.stures are filled with eggs in the infested area of the Red 
River Valley, Adults are still numerous enough around Stephen 
to eat off several acres of fall rye down below the surface of 
the ground. We can not see what will prevent a big outbreak 
in 1932. 
C. P. Stiles (October 28): Most of the grasshoppers have 
laid their eggs and disappeared from Oklahoma. With favorable 
weather for development of grasshoppers, we may expect a serious 
outbreak in central and. southwestern Oklahoma next year. 
H. C. Severin (October): We have not had a killing frost as 
yet, and surviving grasshoppers are still laying eg^s. The 
species surviving in largest numbers are M. diff erentialis Thos., 
M. mexicanus mexicanus Sauss. , and M. femur- rub rum DeG. 
M. bivittatu s Say is an earlier species, and while it was the 
most harmful of the four mentioned, it began to die off late 
in August, and only a few survive at present. An immense number 
of eg^s are found in the ground in the areas that were badly 
