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this pest. Given a simmer with plenty of rainfall and a 
heavy growth of volunteer wheat and the Hessian fly can 
easily build up a menacing abundance in this State by the 
.time of the appearance of the main fall brood of 1928. 
C HUTCH BUG ( Blissus leucopterus Say) 
J* W. McColloch (June 20): There has been no damage by 
the chinch bug in the State to our knowledge. Abundant rain- 
fall during the past few weeks has destroyed the few bugs 
present in the fields. 
R» W» Hamed (June 25): Specimens of the chinch bug were 
received on June 1 from Holly Springs. Only two infested 
plants were found in a 10-acre corn-field. 
MEADOW PLANT BUG ( Miris dolabratus L. ) 
Carl J, Drake (June 4): The meadow plant bug Miris 
dolabratus , is doing serious damage in a few wheat fields 
in the southeastern portion of the State, One farmer near 
Muscatine reports that the insect is migrating from the 
adjoining fields and fence rows into a large wheat field, 
50 acres, and destroying all the wheat in its path. This 
is the first report of ssrious injury to wheat in the State. 
WHEAT STEM MAGGOT ( Meromyza americana Fitch) 
C. N, Ainslie (June 25): White heads are appearing in 
many wheat fields in this vicinity (Sioux City) and farmers 
generally attribute these to Hessian fly attack. It has been 
so reported in the local press. The adults of Meromyza 
are numerous everywhere and they are always taken in every 
sweeping of grasses' and grains. The loss from their injury 
to wheat will be nominal - a very small percentage* 
M» H, Swenk (May 15-June 15)$ During the period from 
June 10 to June 15 a number of reports of the wheat stem 
maggot were received from different southeastern Nebraska 
counties, including Butler, Fillmore, Nuckolls, Kearney 
and Merrick Counties. In some cases as high as 30 per cent 
of the heads in the fields have been destroyed by this pest. 
This season will rank along with 1912, 1916*, 1921, and 1927, 
as a year of serious losses. 
J. W» McColloch (June l): The wheat stem maggot is said 
to have injured the wheat crop in Harper County about 2 
per cunt. 
GREEN BUG ( Toxoptera ."-raminum Bond . ) 
M, H* Swenk (May 15-June 15): An infestation by the spring 
grain aphid or green bug in the oat fields of southeastern 
