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campaigns 20,000 pounds of arsenic v/as -used and the United States 
Reclarjati&n 'Service expended appTt)xir.:GtGiy $12., 000-f-o-r- materials . and labo.r 
in controlling grasshoppers on their hpldings. In the Great Plains regioij 
in Western Kansas and Nebraska, sinilar indications of sorious trouble 
were noted very cax-ly -in- the season. As the- season advanced the outbreak 
materialized and rather serious depredations were s\iffered. Later in the 
season considerable trouble was experienced over the greater part of Kansas 
and Missouri, and late ih the fall these insects TVcre nunercus enough, 
particularly in the western" part of their range, to threaten the ne77ly 
seeded wheat and to indicate the probable occurrence of a large brood of 
hoppers next spring. As a whole, however, the' year '.vas not one of very 
serious grasshopper depredations. 
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MOmiON CRICKET 'AID LUBBER GRASSHOPPER 
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In the / .narihTJest ernno St" counties of Colorado a very heavy 
outbreak of the iv.'.:rrnon cricket ( Anabrus si::plex Hald.). occurred and con- 
siderable tir.:e and r.;oney were spent in fighting this insect,- The situation 
is so seri us in this region that Federal aid is being sought for its 
soluti ,n. The lubber grasshopper ( Brachystola r.ia.:na Gi r . ) appeared in a 
very localized outbreak in northern Florida, 
WHITE GRUBS '.' ■ 
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During late April and early May heavy flights' of June beetles 
( Phyllopha::;a spp.) occurred in Missouri, and over the greater part of the 
East Cantral and 'West Central States. The flights were not, hov/ever, un- 
usually large. On the other hand, white-grub injury was reported quite 
generally throughout this entire area and isolated reports were received 
from many points along the Atlantic seaboard. Over the greater part of the 
East Central States the larvae doing the iprincipal damage v^ere of brood A» 
WIR£,;ORliiS . ' 
The year was marked as one of very severe damage by wireworms 
(Elaterilae), involving many species and covering practi6ally the entire 
counitSyeast of the Rocky Mountains, Among the species recorded during the 
yeat were Monocreioidius vespertinus Fab, from Mississippi, ITorth Carolina, 
and South Carolina, Melanotus pilosus Blatch* from Nebraska Pheletes 
ai^onus Say from Pennsylvania, Horistonatiis \ahl eri Horn from South Carolina 
and Mississippi, and Hcteroderes laurentii Guer, from Alabama and . 
Mississippi , 
CUT'w'ORMS 
Injury by cutworms (Noctuidae) was less prevalent over the New Eng- 
land, South Atlantic, East Central, and North Central States than during 
1927, vrith the exception of a localized outbreak in the trucking section 
about Chadbourn, N, C, Late in June a rather serious outbreak developed in 
the overflo'jved land in Arkansas, and in July a similar outbreak occurred on 
overflowed land in the north '.Tillamette Eiver Valley in Ore,:;on« The pale 
western cutworm ( Porosa.Trot is othagonia Morr« ) occurred in threatening 
numbers in parts of North Dakota* 
