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been reported where corn was seriously injured on -round which 
was sown to wheat last fall and where the winter wheat vas 
killed. 
E, L. Chambers (June 15): In lowlands wireworms have been 
doing unusually serious damage during the past few '.reeks. 
J. fl« McColloch (June 20): Injury to corn by wireworms 
vras reported from Paola on May 23, Mankato on May 28, and Liberty 
June 6. 
J. N» Tenhet (June 15): Adults of Monocre-pidius vesuertinus 
Fab., the tobacco wirewbrm are just beginning to emerge. The 
first individual v:as collected on a tanglefoot screen June 
12. (June 23): Damage to tobacco by wireworms hes been negli- 
gible this spring in the Chadbourn territory. (June 20): A 
small elaterid, M, bellus Say, is being collected in consider- 
able numbers from the vicinity of strawberry fields at Chabbourn. 
CEREAL AND FORAGE- CHOP INSECTS 
AT 
Ohio 
Nebraska 
HESSIAN FLY ( Phytopha^a destructor Say) 
T. Ho Parks (June 24): Examinations made yesterday south 
of Columbus in the Scioto Valley sho.7 the Hessian fly to be 
causing some green straws to lodge and the infestation is much 
heavier than expected. This is true even though practically 
no -heat was sown before the safe bo wing date last fall. The 
insect infested only about 1 per cent of the straws last 
year at harvest time in this ^roup of counties but this year 
■•ill cause some economic loss, Tl. r has been very rainy 
during June with heavy Bhowere almost every day, ffheat is 
late in maturing and very thick on the ( round as a result 
of winter killing* (Jam 22): There : fields of 
wheat that escaped the ".'inter freezing in western Ohio that 
those left are for the most part the earlier sown ones. Fears 
of Hessian fly dam je id. Thifl Loefl not seem to be the 
cause upon inspection though the annual wheat-insect surv 
1 not start until July, Examinations made at Wooster, Ohio, 
show more He Lan fly present than last year with sonn the 
straws lodged ( an abundance of rain during June, 
. 5 (May 15-June 15): As the attack of the . 
spring (o . brood of the Hessian fly has .^ped 
in ' • crop, durin , L1 b.coma apparent tl 
a counties, in addition 4 o rs Cov 
.1, but usually not , tation I .is 
insect. The most c t .port of Injury 
June from Lck County wh I jer part re 
wheat field ■ i traw f a . • f 
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