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during the last 2 weeks shows a very spotted infestation over the 
southwestern, central, and northwestern parts of the State. Adult 
hugs were still flying in numbers during the week of May 10. Mating 
was general in the fields "but no eggs had "been found. A UoO-mile 
check on wheat fields in the central part of the State, made on May 
lH-15, showed that approximately 25 percent of the wheat fields had 
sufficient hugs to cause moderate to heavy damage to adjoining corn, 
should the next 6 weeks he dry. 
C. Benton (May 11-18): In the vicinity of Sterling gradual 
migration of the overwintered chinch "bugs occurred during favorable 
periods throughout the week. 3arley showed rather light hut general 
infestations. Counts in several wheat, rye, and "barley fields showed 
an average of one "bug per foot of drill row. The heaviest infestation 
encountered was in a pastured rye field in which the counts averaged 
6 hugs per foot of drill row. Mating is in progress, hut no eggs or 
young have "been found to date. 
Iowa. C. J. Drake (May 20): The chinch hug situation is more encouraging 
than it has "been for 3 years. 7/inter mortality ranged from U-_5 to 85 
percent in some of the most heavily infested counties. The cool weather 
and late spring have greatly delayed spring migration to small-grain 
fields, and this has given the small grain a good start, so that it will 
he ahle to withstand a light to moderately heavy infestation. Surveys 
indicate that chinch hugs are most abundant in the southwestern and south- 
central counties and it is possible that moderate damage may occur here 
and there in these areas. In the extreme eastern and southeastern parts 
of the State winter mortality was so high that severe damage seems im- 
probable; however, a number of scattered fields in this area contain 
a moderate number of bugs and there may be light commercial damage in 
some fields. 
Missouri. L. Haseman (May 23): Chinch bugs are most abundant in a strip 
three or four counties wide extending across the State in a northeasterly 
direction from southwestern Missouri. Young were hatching on May 15 in 
west-central Missouri and a week earlier eggs were abundant at Columbia. 
Some fields are as severely infested with old bugs this year as in 193^» 
Nebraska. M. H. Swenk (.May 20): Chinch bugs were fairly abundant in barley 
fields in Nemaha and Richardson Counties during the week of May 11 to 
16. 
0. S. Bare (May 19 ): During the past week chinch bugs have appeared 
in considerable numbers in barley fields of Nemaha and Pawnee Counties. 
Kansas. H. R. Bryson (May 19): Some counties in the southeastern corner of 
the State have an abundance of chinch bugs. Coffey, Bourbon, and Wilson 
Counties will no doubt need barriers at harvest time. Serious injury 
may result in some counties. 
Mississippi. C. Lyle and assistants (May 23): Young corn is suffering severe 
injury by chinch bugs at Bay Springs, where many plants were reported to 
be falling over on April 30. This is also the case in Leflore County. 
