I ;; 3 E C T PE3T STJ-HVB Y BULLETIN 
Vol. 8 April 1, 1923 :: °- 2 
OUTSTANDING ENTOMOLOGICAL FEATURES IN 1MB UNITED STALLS FC B H, 1928. 
Spring surveys indicate that the Hessian fly is seriously infesti. 
sat in the central and southern counties of Kansas and paits of Oklaho 
ry serious injury to wheat in northeastern Virginia is also reported, so 
serious that farmers now contemplate plowing out the wheat. 
The green-hug situation is rather serious in Okls loj . Infestations 
have been prevalent all winter and but little parasitism lias been observed 
so far. Bo heavy flights have been observed, however. This insect is 
also reported as abundant near . ichita rails end Denton, Tex. 
The peach borer has appeared in a nursery in Los Angeles County, 
Calif. Inasmuch as this pest is not established in this county, an eradi- 
cation campaign has been inaugurated. 
The vegetable weevil is again doing serious damage in southern 
Mississippi. 
The seed corn maggot is being reported as seriously damaging truck 
in Mississippi, and with the cold, late spring, there is a possibility of 
successive outbreaks of this insect northward. 
An interesting note on damage to sweet potatoes in storage has 
"oeen received fro/a Mississippi, recording the grading out of 40 per cent 
of a 4,400 bushel crop of sweet potatoes bee use of damage by wireworms. 
SHIODICAL CICMD..,, BROOD II. 
Brood II of the periodical cicada, the first large brood recorded 
from the Middle .tlantic States, is due to appear this spria . Mis 
brood occupies, in general, the territory immediately east of Brood I. 
few rather doubtful records have been made from Indiana, Illinois, and 
Michigan, which certainly should be confirmed or disproved this year. 
Owing to the fact that it occurs throughout the densely populated region 
of the Middle Atlantic seaboard, it is one of the best recorded broods of 
this insect. 
This brood was known by Fitch as Brood II and by \ alsh and Riley 
as Brood VIII •and later by Riley as Brood XII. It is now generally ac- 
cepted as Brood II, following Marlatt. Mae brood has been definitely re- 
corded since 1724 in Connecticut and since 1775 in Nev Jersey. 
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