REPORT OF THE STATE ENTOMOLOGIST 1901 (es 
cherry aphis [Myzus cerasi] and the new growth of 
plums and prunes is a solid mass of: grayish green plant lice. 
Reports are coming in that some insect [? Phorbia 
fusciceps| is seriously injuring beans. June 25. Very 
| little, if any, white wheat will be harvested in this section. 90% 
of all that is grown in this section is a white wheat known as 
no. 6. It has been exclusively grown for some years and is a 
fine yielder. The prospect early in the season was that there 
would be 20 to 35 bushels to the acre in all fields, as there was 
little winter injury. A field of white wheat near here, belong- 
ing to G. G. Chick, was not sown till the first week in October 
and looked well much later in May than that early sown, but 
today he informs me that there will be no wheat. July 2. An 
eight acre field of white beans, which had been sown on a field 
of ruined wheat, was found to be seriously infested with some 
insect. The beans at the time of the examination were 38 to 4 
inches high, and there were long spaces in the rows where no 
plants could be seen at all, and in many other places there were 
only bare stems with no signs of leaves. [This injury was 
subsequently identified as probably the work of a small fly, 
Phorbia fusciceps]. The Hessian fly has also attacked 
rye, timothy and barley. A perfectly reliable farmer has told 
me that he has found as many as 50 of the fly maggots in a 
stalk of barley. One of our large farmers is now cutting his 
barley. and curing it for hay, it is so badly affected. I saw 
yesterday in Leroy some wheat which is known as Golden chaff 
or Clausen’s Golden chaff. It is a white wheat which appears 
to be but little troubled by the fly, no more than the red wheat 
about here. July 9. The pale striped flea beetle [Systena 
taeniata| is quite abundant in some bean fields. July 15. 
Fall webworms [Hyphantria cunea] appeared for the 
first time last week. The common squash bug [Anasa 
tristis] is the worst I have ever known it to be. July 27. 
Tonight a lot of bean plants that have been eaten off or nearly 
So, so that they fall over and wilt, were brought to me with 
the statement that the trouble occurred in a number of fields. 
