Kansas 
Ohio 
Indi ana 
Wisconsin 
Webster, Franklin, Harlan, Furnas, Phelps, Gosper, and Frontier 
Counties. Between May 26 and June 15, not only were many heavily 
infested fields of winter wheat reported, "but 'in a consider ah le 
number of cases young corn was attacked and destroyed as it 
came up. In Frontier County, in the vicinity of Stockville, many 
acres of corn were thus completely destroyed by chinch bugs during 
early June, one field having 75 acres taken in this way. The 
bxigs began moving from the wheat and other small grains into the 
corn in southeastern Nebraska from June 12 to 20, and at the 
time of sending in this report (June 25) the migration is develop- 
ing very strongly all over the infested district, 
J. W. McColloch (June 19)2 Chinch bugs have done a large amount 
of damage to wheat in Kansas this spring. In many sections they 
caused premature ripening of the fields. Migration to corn and 
sorghums began the first week in June owing to drying up of small 
grains. In some fields the bugs reduced the wheat yield 50 per 
cent. The number of bugs in northeastern Kansas is greater than 
at any time since 1911 and 1912 c 
SEED CORN MAGGOT ( Hylemyia cilicr ura Rond. ) 
T, H, Parks (May 31): This insect was sent in by the county agent 
of Hancock County with the information that it was destroying 
the corn planting on one farm in the northwestern part of the 
State. The weather has been cool, accompanied by slow growth 
since the corn was planted. 
J, J e Davis (June 26): The seed corn maggot was very destructive 
in a few fields at South Bend (May 22) and Decatur (May 29), 
About 50 pe r cent of a field of garden beans was destroyed by this 
maggot at La Fayette,, 
C ft L, Fluke (June 1)? This insect is very d estructive this year 
in the southern part of this State (Jefferson) D Material was 
collected 'oy the county agent, who reported one field nearly 100 
per cent infested as far as examined. 
S 3 b Fracker (June 16): Considerable damage in Dane., Jefferson, 
and other southeastern count ies« 
Nebraska 
Kan sas 
STALK BORER (Pai raipe ma nit ela C-uen, N 
M„ H„ Swenk (June 25): During the period from June 5 to the 
date of this report numerous reports have been received of injury 
by the stalk borer in fields of field and sweefc corn in south- 
eastern Nebraska from Richardson County to Nemaha, Cass, Douglas, 
Sarpy ; Dodge, and Lancaster Counties,, In come of these fields 
the damage was fairly extensive and serious, 
J.-. Wo McColloch (June 19) ' Injury to com was reported from 
