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GENERAL FEEDERS 
WIREWORMS (Elateridae) 
. L. Haseman (March 25): From limited observations, wireworms 
in sod land seem less abundant at this time than usual. A few 
of the adult beetles have recently been observed moving about 
above ground* 
WHITE GRUBS ( Phyllophaga spp.) 
L t Haseman (March 25): As yet no emergence and no flight of 
the beetles have occurred but they are present in goodly numbers 
in the sod land just beneath the surface of the soil. The larvae 
are also present in the surface soil as shown by recent diggings, 
CEREAL AND FORAGE- CROP INSECTS 
WHEAT 
HESSIAN FLY ( Phytophaga destructor Say) 
General C. C. Hill (January, 1929) : In general, throughout the States 
Statement of Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, the panhandle district of 
West Virginia, Virginia, and North Carolina the Hessian-fly 
infestation was considerably less than in 1927, and with the ex- 
ception of certain districts of Pennsylvania is not sufficient 
to cause serious alarm to wheat growers. From previous experiences 
however, sufficient fly is present throughout most of the area 
under observation to merit observance of recommended dates of 
sowing to avoid fly injury. The most heavy infestations were found 
in the central wheat-growing districts of Pennsylvania and here 
damage to the coming crop will be unavoidable. 
C. M, Packard (January, 1929) : In southern Michigan, and in the 
northern and central portions of Ohio and Indiana the Hessian fly 
was not sufficiently abundant in the fall-sown wheat to cause 
injury, though it was universally present. Occasional early-srown 
fields containing considerable infestation were noted in Branch 
and Calhoun Counties in southern Michigan, in Fulton County in 
northwestern Ohio, and in several counties of northeastern Ohio, 
but on the whole infestation was very light. In the southern 
portions of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, however, the Hessian 
fly was more abundant last fall, many of the earlier sown fields 
being very heavily infested. Rather high infestations occurred 
also in some localities of western Kentucky and western Tennessee. 
J. R. Horton (November, 1928): In general the Hessian-fly 
situation west of the Mississippi River has greatly improved since 
last summer, although there are sections in which a dangerously 
high percentage of the ".'heat is infested. The fly has decreased 
in the western two-thirds and the northern third of Kansas, but 
