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A. F. Satterthwait (Hay 14): Chinch bugs were in flight at Pacific 
on April 11 (R. C. Lange, observer), and were in copulation at the 
same place on May 7. Numbers have been small since April 2, when 
the temperature was 20°F. 
Kansas J. W. McColloch (May 3): In southeastern Kansas com and sorghums 
are up and the bugs are attacking these crops. Migration was later 
than usual this year owing to the backward spring. (May 3): Chinch 
bugs have been flying in large numbers the last few days and becoming 
established in wheat and other small grains. 
Oklahoma E. E. Scholl (April 24): The observation on this insect showed the 
air full of chinch bugs on the wing from winter quarters along a 
ravine to wheat fields. The flight was northward. Lacality, 7 
miles west of Stillwater, in Payne County. Many more were observed 
than last month. (May 9): A chinch bug survey made last week 
showed that these insects are very numerous in the northeastern part 
of Oklahoma. There are considerably more insects prdsent where the 
fields were not burned thoroughly last winter. vTheat growers of 
that part of this State are now convinced that thorough burning is a 
fine chinch bug control measure. 
HESSIAN FLY ( Phytonhaga destractor Say) 
Ohio H. A. Gossard (May ll): In the few fields of wheat that were sowed 
early last fall before the fly-free date there is an abundance of 
Hessian fly, but such fields are so few that they will not affect 
the general situation, which is better than it has been during the 
last t§«f years in Ohio with reference to the Hessian fly. No eggs 
have yet been found at Wooster or at Chillicothe. 
Illinois ¥. P. Flint (April 20): Adults of the Hessian fly have not yet been 
found in the fields. (May 18): The first adults of this insect 
were seen at Urbana on April 30. Spring brood of the fly will 
apparently be very light; but little damage to wheat is expected from 
this brood. 
Iowa F. D. Butcher (May 7): On May 5, in Polk County, the adult flies 
were emerging in large numbers. On 16 stalks having 2 oS 3 blades 
there were 92 eggs. 
F. A. Fenton (May 16): A field trip taken May 5 by Dr. C. J. Drake 
and Fred Butcher revealed the fact that Hessian flies were swarming 
in the wheat fields, and our cage experiments indicate that they are 
emerging in large numbers on favorable days. Present indications 
are that there will be serious Hessian fly damage wherever wheat was 
planted before the fly-free date. 
C. N. Ainslie (May 26):. In fields near Onawa, which were very 
heavily infested last October, I find that the spring infestation is 
almost 100 per cent. At least every plant was infedted with larvae, 
many of them mature and many in the flaxseed stafee. From 4 to 8 
larvae were common in a single tiller. 
