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CEREAL AND EG RAGE-CROP INSECTS 
WHEAT AND OTHER S MALL GRAINS 
CHINCH BUG ( Blissus leucopteru a Say>) 
Indiana. P. Lugiribill and W. B. Noble, Monthly Letter Bur. Ent., No. 237 
(February): Hibernating chinch bugs evidently suffered very little 
mortality in the vicinity of Lafayette up to January 19. Of 465 bugs in 
bunches of corn husks taken from the field on that date, only 5 percent 
were dead. Up to that time the weather was very mild, the lowest temperature 
recorded at Lafayette having been -29 E. , with very little snow and 
precipitation considerably below normal. 
Illinois. W, p. Elint (March 20): Chinch bugs show only about a 3 percent 
winter mortality in recent counts at Urbana. It is estimated that there 
are at least five times as many bugs in hibernation as there were a year 
-ago on the same date . 
Iowa. C. J. Drake (March 26): YTinter mortality has been extremely low; in 
counts we found that considerably less than 1 percent of the bugs perished 
during the winter months. 
Missouri. L. Kaseman (March 21): The chinch bug situation continues serious. 
Late February burning in some cases gave 50 percent kill but since burning 
severe weather has killed over 15 percent in burned as well as unburned 
clumps. 
Nebraska. M. H. Swenk (March 19): The chinch bug is very abundant in south- 
eastern Nebraska. 
Kansas. H. R. Bryson (March 20): Chinch bugs were more numerous in hibernation 
this winter at Manhattan than they have been for five or six years. This 
is generally true for contral and southeastern Kansas. Owing to the mild, 
dry winter very little mortality resulted this year. Adults were taken on 
Kentucky blue°rass plots, March 15. 
HESSIAN FLY ( Phytophaga destructor Say) 
Indiana and Tennessee. Monthly Letter Bur. Ent., No. 237 (February): Practi- 
cally all the hessian fly were in puparia and dormant at Lafayette, Ind., 
in January. At Fayetteville , Tenn., however, the mild weather ana ample 
rainfall during January actually caused a little pupation. Curtis 3enton 
found 2 live pupae in 100 puparia dissected on January 26. His dissections 
of puparia late in January showed about 4 percent mortality. 
Nebraska. M. H. Swenk (March 19): Hessian flies are moderately abundant in 
south-central and southeastern Nebraska. 
Kansas. H. R. Bryson (March 23): Hessian flies are scarce at Manhattan and 
normal in abundance in the central part of the Stat'--. A report from Havana, 
Montgomery County, indicates that the fly is moderately abundant in the 
southeastern part of the State. 
J. R. Korton, Monthly Letter Bur. Ent., No. 237 (February): Dissections 
