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conditions from now on are favorable, we may expect "olenty of "bugs. Per- 
haps in much of the area very heavily infested in 1935 > the infestation 
will decrease, although it still constitutes a serious hazard. There is 
reason to believe that there will be an increase in some of the areas 
lightly infested in I93U. 
Illinois. W, P. Flint (May 20): It has rained nearly every day during Mayj 
but this period of rainy weather has not greatly reduced the numbers of 
adult bugs. There are still large numbers in the small-grain fields and 
an outbreak threatens should the weather turn dry. Because of the heavy 
growth of small grain, the bugs cannot damage this crop nearly so much as 
they did last year. 
Wisconsin. E. L. Chambers (May 21): A chinch bug survey now under way has 
revealed many overwintering "bugs, but not as great numbers as had been 
anticiDated, possibly owing to cold, cloudy weather for the past 2 weeks. 
Iowa. C. J. Drake (May 23): About 5^ nercent of the chinch bugs are in small 
grain and the rest are scattered in the grass fields. Migration from hi- 
bernating quarters to small-grain fields has been very slow and often in- 
terrupted. Unseasonably cool weather has interfered with spring migration. 
The bugs are still migrating on warm days. Winter mortality was quite 
high in central Iowa. In some districts farmers are reporting consider- 
able numbers of chinch bugs in small-grain fields. 
Kansas. "'. T. Emery (May 25): There appear to have been- three Periods this 
spring when chinch bugs were moving from winter quarters to feeding and 
breeding fields in the vicinity of Manhattan. Judging from the catch on 
flight screens, about one-third of the bugs were on the wing on March 25 
and 26. About two-thirds of those remaining took wing on A^ril 22 to 23, 
and the remainder after the first week in May. Erom one to three bugs 
have been found per linear foot of drill row of wheat in fields adjoining 
Andropogon meadows and sorghum stubble. Very few eggs have been found in 
the field. 
Missouri. L. Haseman (May 22): Most of the chinch bugs had left winter 
quarters by the 10th of May, but examination of wheat fiells showed very 
few where we expected great numbers on May lo. Three weeks of continuous 
rain has given them a definite set-back, so far as normal breeding is 
concerned- 
Oklahoma. F. A. Eenton (May 22): A survey has just been completed in three 
of the six counties that were most heavily infested with the chinch bug 
last fall, and the uest is found to be sufficiently abundant in 1? per- 
cent of the small-grain fields to warrant barrier construction, provided 
the weather turns off hot and dry. Examine t ions in March at Stillwater 
showed the uest to be less numerous in this vicinity than at any time in 
the last U years. Owing to the cool, rainy weather the bugs have not yet 
started the production of the first generation. 
