INSECT PEST SURVEY BULLETIN 
Vol, 12 March 1, 1932 
THE ?.:0EE IMPORTANT RECORDS FOR JANUARY ATD IEBRUARY, 1932 
The abnormally mild winter temperatures that prevailed over the greater 
part of the Eastern and Southern States and the unusually early spring are 
closely associated with a number of very unusual insect conditions in many 
parts of the United States. 
Naturally, . following the very serious grasshopper devastations of last 
year, these insects are attracting a good deal of attention. An abundant 
snowfall in the Nest Central and North Central States and comparatively mild 
tem-oeratures over the southern part of this area are accompanied l)'j a very 
high, survival of grasshcomer eggs in 'Wisconsin and the Dakotas. Egg capsules 
collected in North Dakota and brought into the laboratory gave a 95 per cent 
hatch. 
In the extreme South cutworm moths have been observed -oracticelly all 
wint-zr, and during the months of January and February cutworms have occa- 
sioned very considerable damage throughout the Gulf region. 
Owing to very favorable winter conditions, the Hessian fly seems to be 
present in threatening nunbers in many "oarts of the East Central States, as 
is also the chinch bug. The latter insect is in hibernation quarters in ex- 
cellent condition from Illinois westward. • 
In the South Atlantic State.-, from Virginia to Georgia and Mississippi, 
the green bug is more -prevalent than it has been for many years and is caus- 
ing some injury in isolated fields. 
The sugarcane borer did not hibernate this winter in the cane fields, of 
Louisiana, but active larvae were found all winter. 
A high survival of codling moths is reported from New York to Georgia 
westward to Illinois and Missouri. 
The large populations of the 'San Jose scale that built uo during 1931 
have apparently passed the winter with very low mortality. The insect is 
qiiite generally reported as increasingly abundant from New York to Georgia 
and westward to Illinois, Michigan, and Missouri. 
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