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HORNFLY ( Haematobia irritans L.) 
Louisiana T. H. Jones (May 25): The hornfly appears to be unusually abundant 
this year; they have been abundant at the L. S. U. Dairy Farm during 
late May and early June, and were reported as very abundant at a 
dairy at Zachary on June 8, They were noted as very abundant on 
cattle being driven over the roads of East Baton Rouge Parish on 
June 8, and C. H. Staples, Professor of Dairying at L. S. U., states 
that they are unusually abundant at dairies he has visited in the 
State. W. G. Bradley, Assistant Entomologist of the Experiment 
Station, reports having found the hornfly very abundant while on a 
trip to Cameron Parish, they being as numerous on horses as they 
ordinarily are on cattle. 
POULTRY 
ROSE CHAFER ( Maerodactylus subspinosus Fab.) 
Pennsylvania Normal Bailey (June 13): The rose chafer is reported as "eating 
all fruits, blossoms, shrubbery, and roses," °nd chickens and turkeys 
are eating so many of them that they are killing the poultry.' 
Indiana J.J. Davis (June 15): Rose beetles are causing the death of large 
numbers of young chicks in southern Indiana. Definite reports have 
been received from Williams in Lawrence County and from Corydon. 
In some cases they were killing 12 a day, all chicks fatally affected 
being 6 weeks old or younger. 
CHICKEN HITE ( Dermanvssus gallinae Redi.) 
Texas 0. G. Babcock (June 20): The chicken mite has been very bad during 
June in practically all poultry houses where treatment was neglected. 
Baby chicks were killed and hens driven from nests . 
MITES 
Indiana J. J. Davis (June 15): On June 11, head lice, feather and depluming 
mites of poultry have occasioned a number of inquiries from various 
parts of the State . 
INSECTS INFESTING HOUSES &?ND PREMISES 
ANTS (Fonricidae) 
Mississippi M. R. Smith (June 22): T. F. McGehee recently sent to this office 
a number of specimens of the tiny thief ant, Solenopsis molesta Say, 
which he states were present in a box among crackers. This species 
is occasionally found in houses in Mississippi, but it is never as 
numerous or troublesome as Pharaoh's ant, which it to some extent 
resembles . 
