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CEREAL AND FORAGE-CHOP INSECTS 
W HEAT, , 
HESSIAN ELY ( Phytopha~a destructor Say) 
Now York. N. Y. State Coll. Agr. News Letter (June 15): Hessian fly has done 
considerable damage to the wheat in some sections of Genesee County. 
Three fields that have been observed arc infested practically 100 percent. 
Ohio. T. H. Parks (June 25): The wheat-insect survey has started in the 
southern and central counties, where six counties have been visited. The 
average percentage of stems infested in four southwestern counties is 
20.5 percent and for the two central counties is 12. U percent. No 
lodging of straws has occurred and practically no comer cial damage. 
Indiana. C. M. Packard (June 16) : Severe spring infestation and injury to 
nany -"heat fields seen in Posey and Gibson Counties. Much broken-over 
straw. Ely now mostly in flaxseed Stage. 
Iowa. C. J. Drake (June 2U) : Very light infestations throughout southern 
Iowa but no commercial damage, 
Missouri. L. Haseman (June 2U): Owing to the- unusual weather, the spring 
brood did comparatively little damage in the State, and many farmers 
havo harvested fair yields in fields that locked like a complete loss 
last fall. The spring brood has been about as abundant in the northern 
third of the State as in the southern two-thirds, whore it was so 
threatening last fall. There is suf f iciont fly in wheat stubble over 
most of the Stated seriously threaten early seeded wheat this fall. 
Fortunately, parasitizatim of flaxseeds in some areas is quite high. 
WHEAT STEM MAGGOT ( Meronyza anericana Fitch) 
Iowa. H. E. Jaqucs (June 22): The wheat stem maggot is to be found in many 
rye and wheat fields. 
Kansas. H. R. Bryson (June 2_3): Wheat stem maggot is more abundant than 
usual this year. 
A SILLBUG ( C alendra sp.) 
Kansas. H. R. Bryson (June 26): The wheat billbug caused a considerable 
amount of wheat to go down in some fields west of McPherson. This is 
of considerable interest because the insect is also found in some of the 
adjoining grasses , especially Agropyron smithji . 
CORN 
CHINCH BUG ( Blissus loucopterus Say) 
Virginia. H. W. Walker (June 2k) : Chinch burs were reported by the county 
