REPORT OF THE STATE ENTOMOLOGIST 1901 783 



cherry aphis [M y z u s c e r a s i] 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 3 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 [A n a s a 

 t r i s t i s] 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 

 «o, so that they fall over and wilt, were brought to me with 

 the statement that the trouble occurred in a number of fields. 



