Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 140, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1919 — GRASSHOPPER TO DO DAMAGE THIS YEAR, NOT LOCUST. [ARTICLE]

GRASSHOPPER TO DO DAMAGE THIS YEAR, NOT LOCUST.

Indianapolis, Ind., June 13. —Comparatively little menace to trees and crops is seen, by Frank N. Wallace, state, entomologist, with the appearance of the seventeen year locusts. Mr. Wallace says that reports of the damage done by the injects have been exaggerated. The real locust, which does great damage, is a grasshopper, according to Mr. Wallace. The seventeen year locust is to be expected this year in greatest numbers where there were forests seventeen years ago, the state entomologist declares; It prefers deep woods. As a rule the locusts will pass the small trees,^prefering the larger ones, and usually the older trees are able to withstand the splitting of the small branches, caused by the female locust laying her eggs therein. The fruit trees are the only ones which really suffer from the seventeen year locust, Mr. Wallace asserts. The state entomologist gives a warning to watch for and fight the grasshoppers.