40 THE CHINCH BUG. 
That the amount and frequency of rain during the month of May 
has very much to do with the ravages of chinch bugs where sufficient 
numbers have wintered over to produce the requisite number of 
young, is further shown by the fact that in 1894 the only locality 
where serious ravages were committed was in Wyandot County, as 
shown on map (fig. 18), and this was one of the few areas in Ohio 
where the precipitation during that month was less than 8 inches. 
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cipitation over the State during May of the same year. (Author’s illustration.) 
Except over a circular area covering less than one-half of the county 
the amount of precipitation was 3 to 5 inches, and this area includes 
that ravaged by the chinch bugs during the following month. 
Still more striking, however, is the relation between the two 
phenomena during the following year. The last of this series of 
maps (fig. 14) shows the area over which chinch bugs were reported 
