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G-SNERAL FEEDERS 
North Carolina 
Kansas 
WHITS GRUBS ( Fhyllo-hega spo, ) : 
C, H, Brannon (March 3): Mr, 0, 0» Dukes, County A-- r ent , 
Robeson County, reports considerable damage to tobacco 
plant beds by "white grubs, f 
4 "/HITS GRUB ( Phyllo^haea futilis Lee, ) 
J< 'V* McColloch (March 22): The first flight of May 
beetles this year occurred on the evening of March 21 
at Manhattan, 
CEREAL AND FORAGE-CROP INSECTS 
WHEAT 
Virginia 
Kansas 
Oklahoma 
Oklahoma 
HESSIAN ELY ( Phytoohaga destructor S a y) 
T .7„ J, Schoene (March 20): le have received several 
reports of serious injury to "heat in Frederick County 
by the Hessian'-fly, (March 26); The Hessian-fly injury 
in the northern part of the State, particularly in 
Frederick, C3jark, and Shenandoah Counties, is serious. 
The winter has been very unfavorable to "heat in that 
vicinity and much of it is winter killed. This, together 
with the fly injury, is such that some of the farmers 
are thinking of pi owing -up their '"heat fields, 
J, W« McColloch (March 21): Reports of Hessian-fly damage 
are begin ling to come in* Many fields in Harper County 
are badly infested. Reports to the State Board of Agri- 
culture indicate losses from the fly in the central counties, 
C» S, Sanborn (March 20): The Hessian fly was exceptionally 
abundant last fall and practically all wheat in the in- 
vested area sown early was badly infested, some of it to 
the extent that it w as plowed under, "The- 1 sown after 
the date which we established as a fly-free date, October 
12, r, as quite generally free from infestation. So many 
fields were sown before this date, however, that the in- 
festation was carried over and at the present time the 
noninfested fields are doubtless being severely infested 
since the spring brood has been issued here for about t"o 
weeks, 
GREEN BUG ( Toxoptera ^raminum Rond, ) 
C> E, Sanborn (March 20): The green bug is prevalent 
