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Michigan 
APPLE &HAIK APHID ( Rhopalosiuhum prunifoliae Pitch) 
E. H. Pettit (June 26): An epidemic is raging in the grain 
fields of Michigan. Reports are "being received daily that 
the heads of wheat are packed full of lice. An examination 
of all specimens sent in thus far indicates the presence of 
the northern grain aphid. 
CORN 
Ohio 
Illinois 
CHINCH BUG ( Elissus leucoipterus Say) 
T. H. Parks (June 20): Young "bugs are now appearing on 
wheat and foxtail grass in western Ohio. Examinations of 
wheat and "barley fields indicate that there will be many of 
these bugs in July, and county agents are preparing to as- 
sist farmers to protect their corn. 
W. P. Flint (June 20): The moderately heavy rains occur- 
ring during the first part of June were not sufficiently fre- 
quent to cause any great reduction in the infestation. Young 
bugs are now hatching in very large numbers and the infesta- 
tion will apparently "be heavy enough to cause slight to se- 
vere damage over 'the southcentral part of the State from Pul- 
ton and Champaign Counties southward to Randolph and Perry 
Counties. The insect is numerous enough to cause heavy loss- 
es in Christian, Montgomery, Bond, Clinton, and Washington 
Counties. 
Missouri 
Kansas 
L. Haseman (June 22): Chinch "bugs are more abundant through 
central Missouri from the Kansas line to the Illinois line 
than they have been in many years. Unusually favorable weath- 
er for the development of wheat, coupled with the late migra- 
tion of the bugs, has apparently prevented severe damage to 
wheat. On June 22, while the adults are still mating and ovi- 
positing, early hatched nymphs are fairly covering the base 
of corn, oats, and wheat plants, where the fields are badly 
infested. Many cornfields are infested with the old bugs 
owing to the late flight and by the first of July we are ex- 
pecting the migration of the young bugs from wheat to corn 
and our farmers are -prepared to fight them with barriers. 
H. R. Bryson (June 22): Chinch bugs are very abundant. 
Correspondence indicates that this insect is a menace in 
southeastern Kansas. 
Arkansas 
D. Isely (June 23): Local injury by chinch bugs to corn 
has been reported from a number of counties in the eastern 
part of the State. 
