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GENERAL FEEDERS 
Grasshoppers (Acrididao) 
Indiana. J. J. Davis (August 23): During the past month reports of damage, 
mostly to garden crops, were received from many different localities* 
In raany sections grasshoppers have been and continue to be very abun- 
dant in grassy and weedy areas with much less attack and injury to crops 
than their numbers would lead one to anticipate.' Apparently this con- 
dition is duo to the continued succulent vegetation in the breeding 
places, preventing the need of migrating to cultivated crops. The 
hoppers were most abundant in northwestern and northern Indiana; also 
in the central-western region east to beyond Lafayette, and in Wells 
County in northeastern Indiana where the hoppers were- damaging young 
grass as well as garden crops. 
C. Benton and W. B. Noble (August I3-2H): Adults abundant in 
many localities of Benton, Tippecanoe, Clinton, and Tipton Counties, 
Some damage to corn leaves and ears in occasional fields in outside 
portions next to fence rows, especially in Benton County. 
Kentucky. M. L. Didlake (August 2*0: Grasshoppers of several species, 
among them Molanoplus dif ferentialis Thos. -and Dissosteira Carolina L. , 
attacked corn at Eddyville; tobacco, sweetpctatoes, peas, and beans at 
Bowling Green; and Les oedoza sericea at Water Valley. 
Minnesota. A. G. Ruggles (August): Grasshoppers are very abundant in the 
southern third of the State. 
Iowa. H. E. Jaques (August): Grasshoppers are from moderately to very 
abundant throughout the State. 
Missouri. L. Haseman (August 21): Hoppers continue to be abundant espe- 
cially over most of the western and northern parts of the State. The 
two-lined hoppers (M. ' bivit. tatus Say) are practically gone. M. differ - 
entials is mating and females are carrying mature eg.es.- The red-legged 
hopper (M. femur-rubrum leg. ) , in central Missouri, is very scarce, 
while M. mex icanus Sauss. is apparently largely, if not entirely, in 
the second brood and. in "places very abundant. Most of them are in the 
second to fourth ins tar with a few adults, Carolina locust (D. Carolina ) 
was never so abundant as at the present time. The adults are present 
in swarms on all bare spots or cultivated patches. 
Nebraska. M. H. Swenk (August 20): Grasshoppers continue to be the major 
crop pest. Over 1^,000 tons of bait materials have been used. Where 
the bait has been freely and properly applied the grasshoppers have 
been brought under control and much of the corn crop has been protected 
from serious damage . The damage that has taken place is spotted and 
irregular in distribution, and mostly in areas where the population 
was exceedingly heavy or control measures inadequate, or both. In 
the fall of 1935 there was a small and much localized hatching of 
