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WHIT'S GHUL3 ( Phyllophaga -sup.-) 
W. M. Mingee (March 25): I observed May beetles for the first 
time this spring in abundance, this P. M. Most of which were 
Fhyllophapg. micaus . 
L. Faseman (March IS): We are certain to have considerable trouble 
from these insects this year. They are widely distributed over 
the State. 
M. K. Swenk (October, November, and December, 1S24): Complaints 
of injury by white grubs continued to be received in diminishing 
numbers during September and up to the middle of October, when 
they abruptly ceased. 
WHSAT 
. ■ HESSIAN FLY (Phvtpphaga destructor Say) 
W. P. Flint (March- 11): Hessian fly puparia in volunteer wheat 
in the vicinity of Urbana, according to T. H. Parks, show nearly 
•90 per cent para si-'t ism. 
L. Hasoman (March 18): The fly was present in alarming numbers 
last November in our experimental plats at Springfield (south- 
western Missouri) and Maryville (northwestern Missouri), but no- 
where else. The 'rains of last fall helped to retard early seed- 
ing but we are likely to have some damage in the above two sections 
of the State. 
M. H.. Swenk (October, November, and December, 1924): The date 
of safe sowing for the Hessian fly was announced for the last 
Nebraska county on October 6. Many farmers awaited the announced 
date of safe sowing, and the dry fall held back the germination of 
the wheat in the earlier sown fields to such an extent that more 
of the Hessian fly infestation is in the volunteer wheat. In a 
field in Platte County, examined during the first week in October, 
volunteer wheat plants were found infested wi th an average of 5.8 
larvae to the plent. (January and February, 1925): So far as 
this -.office has been able to learn, the campaign conducted last 
fall to control the Hessian fly by delaying the sowing of the 
winter wheat until a safe date was eminently successful. Very 
good publicity of the operations of the field observation stations, 
and of the dates of safe sowing as deduced therefrom, was obtained. 
Up to date only one report has been received of noticeable infesta- 
tion .in wheat fields seeded on or after the announced date of safe 
sowing. This report comes from eastern Cass County and concerns 
a light infestation in a neighborhood where local conditions ap- 
parently slowed the disappearance of the fall brood of the Hessian 
fly a few days beyond the average. The prospects are that the 
fall Hessian fly campaigns of 1923 and 1924 have reduced the 
Hessian fly from a highly destructive abundance to a normal non- 
menacing condition. 
