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OUTSTANDING ENTOMOLOGICAL FEATURES FOR JUNE, 1922. 
In eastern and southern Nebraska a Hessian fly infestation has developed 
which is heavy enough to menace seriously the next sowing of wheat. In 
Kansas the second brood is manifesting itself much more seriously than was 
expected. In places as high as 25 per cent of the straw has fallen. The 
fly was discovered this year for the first time in Cheyenne County. This 
extends the fly-infested territory in Kansas to the Colorado State line. 
Early in the month several local green-bug outbreaks developed in 
southern and eastern Nebraska. In Kansas this insect has seriously daraged 
oats over the entire State, and all spring grain has suffered heavy losses 
in Colorado, especially in the Arkansas Valley. 
As was to be expected from the comparatively mild winter and the infesta- 
tions which developed last year, the chinch bug has put in an appearance in 
the north-central States. About the middle of June it was reported from 
southern Michigan, late in May it was arbserved in large numbers in South 
Dakota, where it appeared in damaging numbers last year for the first time 
in the history of the State. It has also been reported as serious for the 
first time in about 20 years in the southeastern corner of Iowa in Lee 
County. The late emergence of the bugs, in the region of heaviest infesta- 
tion last year, induced them to oviposit on young, corn, and as a result the 
infestation of this crop so early in the season has already proved very 
disastrous. Reports of heavy egg laying by overwintered bugs in young corn 
have been received from Illinois and Kansas. 
The bollworm is again appearing in heavy infestations in the South and 
being picked up in the northern produce markets on southern raised truck. 
Grasshoppers are emerging in serious numbers in the Upper Peninsula of 
Michigan, western Nebraska, southwestern Ohio, and quite generally over 
Colorado. 
The alfalfa weevil has very decidedly increased in the Reno district in 
Nevada near the California State line, several square miles of newly infested 
territory having been discovered this spring. 
The clover-root curculio ( Sitona hispidulus Fab.) has been found seriously 
damaging soybeans in Illinois, Indiana, and Missouri. 
The rosy apple aphid is reported as unusually numerous in the New England 
and Middle Atlantic States as far north as Virginia and westward to Ohio. 
The apple-tree tent caterpillar is very numerous in New England and New 
York while farther south this pest is noticeably less numerous than usual. 
The pear-leaf blister mite has appreciably increased in abundance in 
Oregon and in the White Salmon District of Washington. In the Yakima Valley 
of the latter State it was reported for the first time as an apple pest last 
year. It also appears to be quite serious in western Missouri. 
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