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SOME OBSERVATIONS ON AN OUTBREAK OF THE TWO-STRIPED GRASSHOPPER (MELANOPLUS BIVITTATUS SAY) IN NOVA SCOTIA

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

A. D. Pickett
A. D. Pickett
Affiliation:
Provincial Entomologist for Nova Scotia, Truro, N.S.
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During the summer of 1931 an outbreak of the two-striped grasshopper (Melanoplus bivittatus Say) occurred in localized areas in Nova Scotia on the dyked lands along the Avon River in Hants County and on the Grand Pré dyke lands in Kings County. Reports were also sent in of localized outbreaks in Cumberland and Antigonish Counties, but so far as the writer is aware these terminated in that year. The writer investigated the two first mentioned outbreaks and made careful observations during that season and the subsequent two years when the outbreak finally terminated and feels that certain data should be recorded.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 67 , Issue 2 , February 1935 , pp. 24 - 27
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1935

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