Georgia 
Oklahoma 
Nebraska 
Kansas 
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M„ S* Yecmans (February 12): We have had a large nuirt 
of complaints, of .damage on oats and wheat recenilv 
Atlanta., caused by '"hat may be the green bug, 
C« E, Sanborn (February 15): I have heard come reports i - 
lative to the prevalence of green bugs in the southern part 
of the State, but no specimens have been received by this de- 
partment . 
APPLE GRaIN APHID ( Rhopalosiphum prumfoliae Fitch) 
M, H^ Swenk( November 1 - January 1): A Richardsc>-- Cc-j.nty 
farmer reported during the last week in November that patches 
in his winter wheat fields were dying out because of attack 
by a plant louse or aphid. Examination of specimens showed that 
the species concerned was the apple grain aphid* 
PLAINS FALSE V7IKEW0HM (Sleodes opaca Say) 
J- W, McCollcch (February 19): False wire-orms probably 
caused more damage during the past fall than any other -.heat 
insect* Throughout southwestern Kansas wheat stand? were 
thinned and the early s eeding destroyed. i ^Replanting continued 
until the last of December. Incident** /We have received reports 
of injury at Spearman and Follett, Tex, 
CORN 
Rhode Island 
Illinois 
EUROPEAN CORN BORaR (pyrausta nubilalis Hbn» ) 
A* E* Stene (February 24): The only insect that re have 
watched is the corn borer and that is apparently in condition 
to give us quite an infestation fchic year unless the growers 
clean up early in the spring* 
GRAPE COLASPIS ( Colaspis brunnea Fab.) 
J* H* Bigger (February 20): Little damage is expected dur- 
ing the coming season in the western part of the State. 7h- j 
clover acreage during 1928 was small and the majority of it 
fall plowed. 
VETCH 
Alabama 
APHIIDAE 
J* M. Robinson (February 18): During December, January, and 
early February the plant lice on vetch and Austrian peas fe 
been active and have appeared in average numbers. 
