Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-09-28
INSECT PESTS ON
SCHEDULE IN 1887
Few Crops Have Escaped
Damage from That
Source This Season

nonM invade American fields, gard
ems. ana orchards In June appeared
about on schedule, according TO the
insect Pest Survey Bulletin OF the
~. S. Department. of Agriculture.
or the major grain pests, only the
F .hinch bugAvery susceptible TO damp
.less-wass held back by the heavy
aims this spring and early summer IN
he Corn Belt Grasshoppers, IN the
Midwest, Great Plains area and the
Southwest, and Mormon crickets, In
Z he Great Basin, still are exceedingly
numerous and destructive. -.
Wireworms have damaged potatoes,
.obacco, and garden crops along the
Atlantic seaboard, from Maine to
Georgia, destroying up to SO percent
II the shade-grown tobacco on some
Connecticut farms and great deal Of
oright-leaf tobacco i'm North Carolina.
injury by these insects was reported
also from the East Central States and
rom Kansas, idaho, and Oregon.
The pale western cutworm develop
ID so extensively in North Dakota that
is high as Is percent of the seeded
.rops in some places in the western
BART OF the State are ruined.
North Dakota and Utah suffered
from beet webworm outbreaks, and
the eastern half of Kansas from a
garden webworm outbreak.
There were bad armyworm OUT
breaks in Delaware, Maryland, and
Virginia the early part of June.
White grubs, in large numbers,
have been very destructive in the
East Central States, from Ohio and
Michigan to Kansas.
The rose chafer- present in out
break numbers-has damaged a wide
variety of crops in New England and
he Middle Atlantic States, westward
to Michigan.
The vetch bruchid has added two
counties in North Carolina-Edge-
,ombe and Halifax-to its range.
Fruit Enemies at Work
The last week in May and first week
4 June brought peak flights of the
sodling moth in the Hudson River
Falley, in New York. The infesta-
ION there is much heavier than last
year. First-generation moths develop
I'd the second week in June in Geor-
ia The spring brood flight in the
Yakima Valley, washington, reached
IS peak the last week in May-about
% days later than in 1886.
The eastern tent caterpillar con-
inued serious pest in the New Eng
and and Middle Atlantic States.
The rosy. apple aphid is reported
from Maine to New York and in the
Mississippi Valley from Kentucky to
1issouri. 1t is much more numerous
/ chan usual in Idaho and Washington.
The peach bereF began to emerge
about two weeks later than last year
| IN the Fort Valley section of Georgia.
The first-brood plum curculio, was
late in coming outeof the ground this
year. Practically all the early Geor-
5ia peaches have been harvested-teo
soon for injury by this pest. There
are more curculois than usual in Mis-
sissippi and Texas: = Y
Blister beetle injury was reported
| from the South Atlantic States and
| westward around the Gulf to Okla
nona and Kansas.
Flee beetles damaging potatoes and
Garden vegetables in New England
| md New York and westward to North
Dakota. ~
The seed-corn maggot has hurt bad
y q, : sle-errovun tobacco in the Connec-
lieut. River valley and a variety of
| field and garden crops from New York
hro,gh Michiaan ana indiana. to
Jor+h naLota r did some damage
~ ro,orsdo
s M, Z $500, s+;nlrh,,o sar;ouslv dam
= oad cottaa mas beans. and manv
| afhar track erans IN Alabama and
| Nriseissirni Tts. .a,,threalse ii Missis-
;r,r; - ~, ,,,e,.st ~, ,.scard
T Ti,, = ~, 49, ,,sgotsIsla weevil ne-
ss;ts+ o. areest re mani IN
49, fierGs Ca, Hsrn rdr, f San
f fs.,; - -
Ma,. Mng,and bsas naore Mexican
80, ,astl ,e $ !, III 7ns5 nr 1936.
M rTu &c baafles sarr oo,saralSin the Mid
di ls Atlantic STATS e and the lower
Mississinui vaIllav also Ne
TSa~a "a S saso 80 ,,,,n,bars of the
Aels az laase A S4pney e. 80
psa as1 Il so 1s ,,a,,s IS Utah
l 80 tIf., IN s1t eaeskarv
shSs =, more
,saasa,, eu9 t,. s, ,.s,,as ar ia the New
=, 1900 Middle Atlantic. ana South
Ala ntiSs sfatess Il, furious also in
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