CEREAL AND FORAGE- CROP INSECTS 
WHEAT 
Illinois 
North 
Carolina 
Kansas 
Sshsaska 
Kansas 
South 
Dakota 
Illinois 
HESSIAN FLY ( Phytophaga destructor Say) 
W. P. Flint (April 18): Observations in volunteer wheat, 
April i5, showed about 80 per cent of the fly in the pupal 
stage,, and about 20 per cent still in the larval stage* No 
eggs were found on wheat plants in Urbana on this date, 
GREEN BUG- ( Toxoptera graminxam Rond» ) 
Zm P. Metcalf (April 25): C. H. Brannon reports that the green 
hug is destructive to winter tye on several farms in Alamance 
County* 
PLAINS FALSE WIRE'TORM ( Eleodes opaca Say) 
JV W« Mc Col loch (April 10): The false wireworm was very pre- 
valent in western Kansas last fall and again this spring. 
Owing to dry soil conditions much of the wheat did not germinate, 
The false wireworms worked on this seed last fall and early 
this spring. It ia estimated that 2,000,000 acres of wheat 
in western Kansas will be abandoned because of dry weather and 
false wireworms, 
ARMY" CUTWORM ( Chorizagrotis auxiliaris Grote) 
Don B, Fnelan (April 25): This cutworm has been reported from 
Chadron (Dawes Co.) where it had destroyed 200 acres of winter 
wheat and were still on the march. They were also reported from 
Grant (Perkins Co,) from Beaver City (Furnas Co,) and from 
Elgin (Antelope Co.). 
J» Wm McColloch (April l): Injury by the army cutworm has been 
reported from Douns, Otis, Alton, Salina, Bloomington, 
phillipsburg, and Smith Center. In most cases the damage has 
bbean to wheat but at Douns this cutworm was also attacking 
alfalfa. . . 
FIELD CRICKET ( Grfrllus assimilis Fab. ) 
H» C, Severin (April 14): Passed the winter successfully and 
in large numbers in the egg state. Considerable trouble expected 
from this pest in western South Dakota* 
CORN 
CHINCH BUG (Blissus leucopteru s Say) 
W. p. Flint (April 18): An examination of chinch-bug hibernating 
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