Show insect pests hit crops of country count ry bugs ranged range d wide and ate hearty this summer washington the bugs of the country have had a good summer they ranged wide and ate hearty the bureau of entomology preparing new offensives in its fight against insect pests listed of them annoying man beast and plant from maine to california and from the gulf to canada where alberta wheat farmers are having their troubles with says Stink stinkbug sixteen states are afflicted with grasshoppers numerous enough to be a scourge the mormon cricket thrives in the wheat and range lands ot of 11 western states and the army worm feeds on grain crops from maine to iowa and north dakota boll weevil plagues eight southeastern states are plagued with boll weevil and other cotton pests and peach orchards along the eastern seaboard and as far inland as michigan are hosts to the oriental fruit moth apple orchards still shelter the coddling moth from new york to nevada and the chinch bug starving in chios cornfields moves west and south to wind up in texas eating sorghum his cousin the hairy chinch bug likes connecticut lawns in addition to such familiar and a widespread pests the bureau ft finds buffalo treehoppers tree hoppers eating pears in in michigan and garden shrubs in missouri th the e three cornered alfalfa hopper feasting f on louisiana legumes |