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CHINCH BUG (Bl issus leuccpt er as Say) 
W. P. Flint (August 26): Heavy rains during the latter part of 
July and the first of August have reduced this insect to a point 
where practically no injury to corn will occur- in Illinois during 
the present season. There are less "bugs at this time than at any 
tine since the summer of 1911. 
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H. C. Severin (July 30): This pest has become a negligible factor 
in this State ercept in isolated places here and there in Charles 
Mix, Bon Homme, and Douglas Counties. 
M. H. Swenk (July 10-August l): By far the most injurious insect 
during the period covered by this report has been the chinch bug. 
The migration from the wheat and barley fields into the corn, be- 
ginning from June 25 to July 7, continued until about the middle 
of July, when it was practically over. The bugs were migrating 
heavily all through the infested area from July 10 to 15. The 
infested area continued to be as outlined in my last report of 
July 10, except that the Furnas and Gosper County infestations 
proved to extend east into western Phelps County and northeast 
even to southwestern Buffalo County, in the vicinity of Sim Creek. 
The infestation in southern (not northern} as stated in error in 
my report of July 10) Saline County proved to be serious in the 
vicinity of Western. As thus revised the infested area includes 
Hichardson, Nemaha, Pawnee, Johnson, southwestern Otoe, southeastern 
Lancaster > Gage, Jefferson, southern Saline, Thayer, Nuckolls, Web- 
ster, Franklin, Harlan, Furnas, Gosper, western Phelps, and south- 
western Buffalo Counties. Complaint of injury has ceased at the 
time of preparing this report. No serious chinch bug outbreak 
has as yet developed in northeastern Nebraska, where the pest was 
injurious last year, only a few reports of an abundance of the pest 
having been received, and these all from Knox County. 
J. W. I.IcColloch (August 13): Chinch bugs are abundant in the corn 
and sorghum fields, although there are few reports of serious damage. 
A farmer at Lenora reports the loss of 25 acres of milo. Plenty of 
rain during the last month has been favorable for the development of 
the fungus. 
F. L. Thomas (August 12): Nymphs and adults very abundant upon 
agronomy test plat to which the insects had migrated from com. 
CORN EARWOBM ( Eeliothis obsoleta Fab. ) 
A. I. Bourne (August 20): On August 4 and the succeeding few days 
we had complaints of the corn earworm on sweet corn. These were 
the first complaints received since the outbreak of two years ago. 
Specimens sent in varied considerably in extent of development, but 
were approximately one-third to one-half grown. One or two fields 
in this immediate vicinity were reported to be quite heavily attackec 
As yet, however, we have had no complaints from other points in the 
State. 
