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Increased injury from cutworms in 1933 indicated for western Ore- 
gon.--L. P. Rockwood, Forest Grove, Oreg., reports that "Bait traps that 
have been used for the past 6 years Captured more noctuid moths in August 
and September than in any year since 1929. The record number of 809 Euxoa 
messoria Harr., the common dark~sided cutworm, has been taken to date, 
the maximum flight occurring on the nights of September 9 and 10, * * * 
Judging from past records, considerable injury by E. messoria and E. sep- 
tentrionalis W1lk. to garden and field crops in April, May, and early June, 
1935, may be anticipated. These species winter as first-stage larvae in 
the eggs and are not much affected by even extreme winter weather condi~ 
tions. Injury from the species wintering as partly grown larvae, namely 
Neuria procincta Grote, Graphiphora c~nigrum L., and Rhynchagrotis insula- 
ris Grote, may be expected if the winter is mild. The same is probably 
true of Agrotis ypsilon Rott., which, in some cases, probably winters as 
adults or as larvae or pupae." 
The differential grasshopper enters Montana.-—"On September 28," re- 
ports J. R. Parker, "J. H. Pepper, collaborator at Bozeman, Mont., found 
Melanoplus differentialis Thos. in considerable numbers near Glendive, 
Mont. This is the first record of the occurrence of this important spe— 
cies in Montana. The nearest place where it was known previously is Het— 
tinger County, N. Dak., some 125 miles to the southeast. It seems highly 
probable that the colony at Glendive migrated from North or South Dakota 
during the periods of extensive flights by this species in July and August 
of the past two summers. It will be highly interesting to determine how 
long the colony will be able to maintain itself in an area outside of its 
natural range." 
Grasshopper fungus fails to control pest in South Dakota.--Mr. Par- 
ker states that "F. A. Morton, who is surveying southeastern South Dakota 
and part of Nebraska, reports a striking difference in the extent of 
damage done and the number of eggs found on each side of the Missouri 
River where it forms the boundary between the two States. On the South 
Dakota side farmers depended to a large extent on artificial cultures of 
the grasshopper fungus to kill grasshoppers. The results were negative 
and in September serious crop damage was in evidence and eggs were plen- 
tiful. In the Nebraska side poisoned bran mash was used successfully 
in preventing crop losses and eggs were difficult to find.- » Thus Stan, 
Mr. Norton has not found eggs in Nebraska in sufficient numbers to indi- 
cate serious trouble next year." 
Differential grasshopper ccncentrates eggs in headlands.--Mr. Par- 
ker says that "The egg survey showed that most of the oviposition of Mel- 
anoplus differentialis took place in headlands adjacent to cornfields. 
If the headland was of buffalo sod, most of the differentialis eggs were 
laid in bunches of this grass. When the headland consisted of blue- 
joint and other taller grasses, the eggs were found along the very edge 
of the sod of ditch banks. Of the egg predators only 3 or 4 carabid 
larvae were found in the whole survey. This is rather singular in that 
in North Dakota carabid larvae occur in great numbers in many places, 
