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Nebraska 
M a H. Swenk (July 25): From Butler County, under date of 
June 2b, came another report of injury to corn "by wireworms 
of the species Melanotus fissilis Say. This field was of listed 
corn, on low, heavy black soil. About the middle of June the 
wireworms started boring in the base of the stalks and cutting 
off the plants a little below the surface level of the ground 
so that by June 26 the corn had been killed out in large patches 
and there were from two to four of the wireworms in each corn- 
stalk. 
CEREAL AND FORAGE -CROP INSECTS 
WHEAT AT© OATS 
Pennsylvania &. 
New York 
Ohio 
Indiana 
Nebraska 
New York 
Pennsylvania & 
York 
HESSIAN FLY ( Phytophaga destructor Say) 
C* C. Hill (August 2): Recent surveys by T. J. Blisard and 
the writer, in eastern Pennsylvania, and H. D. Smith in certain 
sections of the State of New York show very light Hessian fly 
infestation* The infestation in New York State extended into 
the spring wheat sections of Jefferson County B 
E, W. Mendenhall (July 12): I find the Hessian fly infestation 
to be 3^.£ 'Psr cent in Darke County. The infestation A s ^orse 
where the fly-free date was not observed. 
J. J, Davis (July 26): Indications reach us from all parts of 
the northern two-thirds of the State of an abundance of the 
Hessian fly and probabilities of a heavy infestation this fall* 
M. H, Swenk (July 25): The Hessian fly did practically no 
commercial damage to the Nebraska winter wheat crop of 1525—26. 
The only complaint of any lo^s whatever to be received at this 
office came from central York County, and this indicated that 
the damage was but slight. 
WHEAT STRAW WCEM ( HaraolUa gr andi s Riley) 
H« D. Smith (August 2) : A general infestation of Harmolita 
crand is . was found in various sections of New York State. It 
occurred in considerable abundance in Wayne and nearby counties 
and was found in lesser abundance in the spring T "heat regions 
of Oswego and Jefferson Counties. 
WHEAT STEM SAWFLY (Cephus pygmaeus L.) 
H. D. Smith (August 2): A recent survey by the writer in the 
State of New York shows the wheat seem sawfly to be very 
abundant and extending throughout the wheat growing sections 
from northern Pennsylvania to as far north as Oswego County. 
In Oswego and Jefferson Counties scarcely any infestation was 
found. 
