30 percent of the heads already lodging* 
Nebraska. H. D. Tate (Hay 17) : The first adult was observed in Gage 
County, in the southeastern part of the State, on April l6. Large 
numbers of "flam seed" were found in volunteer wheat on a farm in 
Lancaster County on April 24 but apparently none had emerged. 
Kansas. H. R. Sryson (May 26): The hessian fly situation is 'more serious 
than it has been for several years. One report from Marshall County, 
in the northeastern part of the Sta.te, stated that some fields of 
wheat had been plowed up. 
Oklahoma. C # E. Stiles (Mav 3^)* Hessian fly infestation ha.s increased 
quite rapidly throughout the extreme northeastern ■ portion of the State 
this year. The heaviest infestation is in Ottawa County. A few coun- 
ties in some of the most heavily infested fields show that approximate- 
ly 50 percent of the straws are damaged. 
CHINCH BUG ( Blissus 3nu- c °P torus Say) 
Ohio. T. H. Parks (May 23): I nspections of wheatfields in Madison and 
Union Counties, central Ohio, reveal adults present in some, but they 
are not considered abundant enough to cause trouble. 
Indiana. C. Benton (May 24): Spring migration from hibernation quarters 
which started near Lafayette April 11 was practically completed May 1. 
Frequent cool rainy weather during May slowed activity of the bugs 
so that although mating was first observed in field April 22, the first 
eggs were not found till Mav 19 and a few first-instar nymphs May 23. 
By that date mating was quite general. Field counts in Tippecanoe 
County May 19 showed some fields of thin winter wheat to have moderate 
to heavy infestations of overwintering bugs. In L e nton County counts 
May 22 showed generally moderate infestation with occasional heavy 
infestation of winter wheat and spring barley. Oat fields in both 
counties in the western part of the State showed only a trace of in- 
festation. 
Illinois. ¥. P. Flint (May 24): There is a moderate, scattered infesta- 
tion over the central part of the State, Eggs were abundant on May 
23, but no young have been observed. 
Iowa. H. E. Jaques (May): There is a light to heavy infestation in most 
counti- s of the southwestern part of the State and a light to moderate 
infestation in a few counties in the southeastern and northwestern 
parts of the State* 
Iowa. C. J. Drake (May 27): Overwintering bugs have practically com- 
pleted migration to small grain, although a few may still be found 
in timbered areas and gra.ss land. Heaviest infestations "occur in 
the counties of Shelby, Harrison, Monona* and Crawford, in the western 
part of the State. Threatening populations, and much more spotted 
in nature, were found in scattered fields in all counties examined 
west of Polk, also in portions of Muscatine and Louisa Counties, in 
