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. sreas the later sown fields pre free f ro - the i lsect. Wheat looks 
ver~ well, with less then the usual amount of winter injury. 
CHINCH BUG (Blissus le ucooterus Say) 
Indiana. C. Benton (March 15): Tae mortality of chinch bugs in samples 
of S species of bunchgrass taken from the field on March 11 was 13 
percent of a total of 1,°21 bugs. ITo significant difference in mor- 
tality was apparent in the different kinds of grass, The bugs were 
stirring: about in the grass clumps on March h and 15, when maximum 
temperatures were oC and 73 '■'• > respectively, sore even crawlir an 
inch or ro un the 'tens, "but none were leaving their hibernation 
quarters . 
Illinois. W. ?, Flint (March 20): Recent counts hpve shown winter r.or- 
tality in hibernating chinch bug's to be approximately lh oerce -~ . 
•This is not sufficient to make any appreciable decrease in the probable 
damage this spring . hiere has been no flight of the bugs as yet, and 
ver Tr little activity in winter quarters. 
Missouri. L. Haseman (March 26): From about 10 to 15 oercent of the hi- 
bernating chinch bugs in central Missouri have died but a heav? oopu- 
lation is present in about 90 counties. 
GREEN BUG ( Toy, opt era .graminum Rond. ) 
South Carolina. C. 7. Rainwater (March 15): Aphids were collected fr 
the leaves of oat? in Florence County, where they are generally iis- 
tributed over the entire county and are causing alarm among the farmers. 
Some entire fields nave been killed, anc" snots in many other fields 
hpve "been either killed or severely stunted. Rye is being - : :ed to 
about the same extent as oats. Some of the aphids are parasitized, 
but the percentage of parasitization is rather low. (Det. b: ?. V,'. 
Mason) 
APPLE GRAIN APHID (R. pn-'osip hu? pr urafolire Ditch) 
California. E. 0. Es? i (March ,; -3): The anole grain aohid was ver" abun- 
dant on grains and grasses from February 2R to March 25 at Berkeley. 
CCRN 
EUROPEAN CORN BORER ( Pyrausta nubilalis Hbn. ) 
Connect' cut. I. Turn r (Merch '3): About "0 percent wint r nortality in 
heavily infested weed areas in Hartford 3o ty. A comparative ly large 
infest- t ion remains. 
WEBWQEMS ( Crambus bop.) 
Tennessee. G. M. Bentley (March): Sod webworms -re ere- I rou lout the 
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