INSECT PEST SURVEY BULLETIN 
Vol. 7 April 1, 1927 No. 2 
OUTSTANDING ENTOMOLOGICAL FEATURES IN THE UNITED STATES FOR MARCH, 1927. 
The chinch bug is reported as having started migration from winter 
quarters to the wheat fields during the last week in February, in southern 
Kansas. Mortality was generally low over the Kansas chinch hug belt. Eastward 
the insect seems to be less abundant in winter quarters than usual. Missouri 
reports serious numbers only in the counties along the western edge of the 
State. 
Somewhat intense infestations of the green bug are reported from 
the region north of Dallas and Fort Worth, Tex. , extending from Love County 
westward to Cotton County and northward to Kingfisher County in Oklahoma. 
Thousands of acres of winter wheat have been destroyed by the false 
wireworms around Syracuse, Kans. Damage by this insect is also reported from 
Jennings and Salina, in the same State. 
One of the noteworthy entomological events of the month was the 
launching of the extensive control campaign against the European corn borer. 
The pea aphid is appearing in threatening numbers in alfalfa fields 
in parts of Oklahoma. 
The green apple aphid began to hatch in the Winchester section of 
Virginia on March 14, and at Blacksburg on March 23. 
By March 23, the apple grain aphid was abundant in ^he Blacksburg 
section of Virginia. It was observed in rather threatening numbers in Morgan 
County, Illinois, on March 16, and eggs of this insect began hatching the 
same week in central Missouri, 
The first rosy apple aphid was observed in the Winchester section of 
Virginia on March 18 and in the Blacksburg section on March 14. 
The strawberry weevil is reported as unusually abundant and doing 
Serious damage in the Chadbourn section of North Carolina. The weevils began 
entering the fields on March 7, and egg laying started on March 13. 
The Florida flower thrips has bean severely damaging beans in the 
Okeechobee district of Florida, 
The first adult of the boll weevil was collected from the field on 
March 14 in Florida; 3.88 per cent of the adults in the hibernation cages at 
Gainesville had emerged by February 28. No emergence has yet been observed in 
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