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Show Some Areas in Danger From Insect Pests Grasshoppers, Mormon crickets, and chinch bugs are three of this country's major agricultural insect in-sect pests and the U. S. Department Depart-ment of Agriculture says they might be more than normally troublesome to farmers and ranchers ranch-ers in some areas this year. Infestation surveys conducted ; last fall by entomologists indicate indi-cate that, barring weather and other neutral conditions that might affect their populations, these three insects will need to be controlled over wide areas to prevent excessive ex-cessive damage to crops and ranges. Of all Midwest farmers, those In areas of Missouri and WIscon-; sin may be faced with the most severe build-up of grasshoppers. Populations of these pests in some areas of tli"e two states may average aver-age mor 'han 28 Insects per square yaru -considered "very se-: vere" by he entomologists. Other! crop-lands where hoppers have in-; creased over a year ago Include parti of southeastern Nebraska, eastern Kansas, southern Iowa, and central Illinois. In the West, If hoppers develop normally entomologists expect greatest need for organized control con-trol programs to be In north central cen-tral New Mexico, south central Colorado, central Idaho, and the Panhandle areas ot Texas and Oklahoma. Control of Mormon crickets could be necessary, they say, on 122,000 acres In five states California, Cali-fornia, Idaho, Montana, Nevada and Utah. |