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POULTRY 
BUFFALO GNATS (Simuliidae) 
Michigan 
Iowa 
R.H. Pettit (June 3): I received this morning several s pec- 
imens of Simulium from a location about 30 miles north of 
Grand Rapids. These flies are appearing in swerms and at- 
tacking ducks and chickens. They are reported to be quite 
troublesome, sucking blood as they do and disturbing the 
birds. This is, so far as I know, the first tin.e that 
Simulium has ever been found in Michigan attacking birds. 
(Identified by C. T. Greene as Simulium vittatum Velt.) 
C. N. Sinslie (June 5): These gnats ( Fusimulium sp.) have 
been a pest in northwestern Iowa for several weeks, torment- 
ing people and attacking young chickens and turkeys. It is re- 
ported that one poultryman lost 600 young chickens from these 
gnats and that other smaller losses have been reported. They 
are supposed to have been bred in the side waters of the 
Missouri. 
FOWL TICK Urgas miniatus Koch) 
New Mexico 
J. R. Eouglass (June 6): Complaints of the foirl tick, some- 
times called blue bug, have been received from Sstancia, 
vhere it '"as attacking poultry. 
HOGS 
HOG MAMEMJBHJE (Sarcoptes scabiei suis DeG. ) 
Nebraska 
M.H. Swenk (May 15-June lb): A Butler County correspondent 
reported that his hogs ?-ere badly infested with S. suis . 
HOUSEHOLD INSECTS 
South Carolina 
Nebraska 
ANTS (Formicidae) 
M. H. Brunson (June ): A house at '.Vinnsboro has been con- 
siderably damaged by Camponotus herculeanus oennsylvanicus ZeG. 
M. H. Swenk (May 15-June 15): The mound- building ant, 
PogonomyrmuX occidentalis Cress, was reported as troublesome 
from western counties during the period here covered. It was 
reported from Deuel County on May 11. For...ica fufa L. has 
been unusually plentiful and troublesome in Rock County. In 
eastern Nebraska, F. fusca L. has bv.cn especially troublesome 
in the lawns and gardens and sometimes as invaders of houses. 
These complaints have been received numerously from Douglas, 
Lancaster, and other eastern counties, west to Rock, Buffr.lo, 
and Franklin Counties. 
