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UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA 
Mill Hill 
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reports the loss of 11 ewes from gid or blind staggers. 
HORSE 
BUFFALO GNATS ( Simulium spp,) 
Kentucky. W. A. Price (April 25): Buffalo gnats are appearing in swarms 
near Brandenburg. The area infested is in the Ohio River bottoms and ex- 
tends along the river a distance of three miles. 
Arkansas. M. P. Jones (April 30): The Bxiffalo gnats have killed several 
hundred head of livestock in east-central Arkansas. According to local 
people the pests appeared about one month later than usual. The County 
Agricultural Agent of Cross County, reported that 100 mules had been 
killed in that County. County Agents from Phillips, Monroe, Woodruff, 
Arkansas, Saint Francis, and Lee Counties also reported losses. The 
gnats were so abundant in the vicinity of Forrest City, Saint Francis 
County, that the windshields of automobiles passing through were plastered. 
A number of the farmers had built smudge fires in the evenings to protect 
the stock 
G. H. Bradley (May 2): The total deaths of mules have been conservatively 
estimated at 500. Counties affected are Cross, Lonoke, Lee, Phillips, and 
Monroe. Rivers examined indicate emergence of gnats complete for this 
season. No losses of stock have been reported since about April 26. 
POULTRY 
FOWL TICK ( Argas miniatus Koch) 
Utah. G. P. Knowlton (April 1?): Ticks are reported as injuring chickens 
and turkeys wherever the ticks occur in Tooele County. (Det. by H. S. 
Peters, who states that this is their first record of this species from 
Utah.) 
QUAIL 
A BITING LOUSE ( Lipeurus sp.) 
Nebraska. M. H. Swenk (February 14): About a week ago I examined two speci- 
mens of bob-white quail shot near McCook, Redwillow County, and found upon 
them a couple of specimens of biting lice, of a species apparently not 
represented in our collection at this time. 
HOUSEHOLD AND STORED-PRODUCTS INSECTS 
EUROPEAN EARWIG ( Forficula auricularia L.) 
Idaho. C. Wakeland (March 30): The European earwig is becoming increasingly 
abundant in the Moscow and Coeur d'Alene areas in northern Idaho. Doubt- 
less following the mild winter this insect will become of much greater 
importance during the present year. 
