OUTSTANDING ENTOMOLOGICAL FSaTUBES OP SEPTEMBER, 1921 
■The sea'son'-of insect activity in-niaizay of'tHe States is now rapidly 
drawing to a close, in view 'of -this fact we think i't- advisable to- dis- 
cftAfc-fctie'. the ''Monthly Bullet ins 'for tin© -months 6f Nov'saiBer i' ''"December and 
Jp;T..c-'. The seventh tH8Bber s to be ... ier a., therefore, will "be 
the last for the calendar 'year 192.1^ Lu/: jg the winter ''-months we -will 
issue the annual summary of entomological' 'conditions I'hroaghout the United' 
States.- 1 We do riot w"-ish oar collaborators, hoWeVer,- to- '-under stand that 
we do rut wish to receive entomological ■no'tes' during these monthaw ,,'All 
observations on entomological • conditions- should he reported as heretofore • 
and these features of the winter months will be written up in the February 
numbeiv The' unusual condition's in the 'South will' be' handled with -special 
reports and telegraphic announcements'. '' >•'- ,'■ 
During' the past month recent rain's reduced -the- ravages of : the second 
brood of the chinch bug iri Indiana h,n& Illinois'. 'This brood is heavy'' 1 ' 
enough in Kansas to necessitate a control campaign being put on this 
winter-.'*" In Mississippi this '-pest' is' epidemic'', the outbreak novr underway 
being the most serious in the past 10 years. • • ■ ■ '" - •'••■ 
The corn earWoxma is reported" as- being u'nuSual'ly' abundant in- Connecticut, 
New, York, Delaware, Maryland, Indiana,- Illinois,- Michigan and-" Wiebensinv" 
The fall army worm arrived in northern Indiana late 'this month. 'Iri 
Kentucky this pest is doing serious damage at the present time. The true 
army worm has just put iri its appearance in' Kahi?as,'' where'-' it'- is attacking 
late- corn. '•' -' •• • • ; ; -< ■* > "• ■ "■ '■ ■ • • '' ■'•'■'• 
A 'hearing is zo be held early* neii month befOf§ the .Federal- Horticultural 
Board to consider quarantine -measures for .the new territory 'infested -by the 
European corn borer, 
The blue-grass billcbg is appearing in unprecedented numbers in parts 
of Iowa. It -js so badly infesting blue-grass that the dead sod can be roll«3& 
up like carpet. 
The alfalfa webworm is destroying many a-res of alfalfa in east-central 
Kansas . 
The codling moth, throughout the country, seems to be much more des- 
tructively abundant than usual. This may be partly accounted for by the 
concentration of the worms in the relatively small crop occasioned in many 
sections by late spring frosts. The unusual severity of plum curcuiio 
damage is probably also to be similarly accounted for. 
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