CEREAL AND FORAGE -CROP INSEC 
illinois 
Missouri 
WH EAT 
CHINCH BUG ( Blissus leucopterus Say) 
W. P. Hint (May 22): Examinations during the last week have 
shown chinch bugs even less abundant than was the case during 
the latter part of April. It now seems certain that no serious 
damage from the first brood of this insect will occur anywhere 
in Illinois this season. The weather for the past month has 
been extremely dry, and conditions in general have been favor- 
able to the chinch bug had sufficient numbers survived the winter. 
L. Haseman (May 12): In some fields in west-central Missouri far- 
mers are reporting that the pest is already affecting the wheat 
(overwintering adults). Mr. TVade has also observed several badly 
infested fields of wheat. 
Mississippi R. W. Harned (May 21): More complaints have been received in 
regard to chinch bug injury to corn this spring than during any 
previous year for a number of years. Most of these complaints 
have come from the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta section of the State, 
that is, the northwestern part of Mississippi. All the com- 
plaints received have been in regard to the injury caused to corn. 
Conditions have been very favorable for the increase of these in- 
sects, as during 1924 we had the longest drouth on record. This 
spring there has also been much less than the average amount of 
rainfall. 
Nebraska 
Kansas 
Illinois 
M. H. Swenk (May 25): Chinch bugs are more numerous and more 
widely spread over an area in southeastern Nebraska than they were 
last year at this time. We expect heavier infestation and more 
loss this year than last. 
J. ■¥.. McColloch (May 21): Chinch bugs are abundant in the wheat 
fields throughout the eastern two -thirds of Kansas, and are causing 
some loss. Their injury is obscured by the heavy infestation of 
the Hessian fly. Climatic conditions have been favorable for the 
bugs. Toung bugs have been hatching during the past' week. 
HESSIAN FLY ( Riytophaga destructor Say) 
W. P. Flint (May 22): The Hessian fly spring brood is more abund- 
ant than was indicated by our reports last month. Recent examin- 
ations made by S. C. Chandler, in southern Illinois, and by J. H. 
Bigger, in west-central Illinois, have shown a very high percentage 
of wheat culms infested by this brood. At the present time the 
average culm infestation is close to 50 per cent'in many fields, 
with early-sown fields running as high as 90 per cent. In some 
cases late-sown fields show less than 10 per cent of the culms 
infested. The fi gores given include all culms on plants examined 
in whatever condition. In many cases where the infestation for 
culms will run as high as 25 per cent, the damage is not great 
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