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It certainly looks as though we had no reason to believe there 
is any danger of a green bug outbreak this spring. Personally, 
I think it one of the most remarkable clean-ups, due to low tem- 
peratures, that we have ever experienced in our green bug studies, 
Mr. Horton wrote me the other day that some one in Oklahoma had 
reported green bugs in southern Oklahoma. However, we have been 
unable to get any confirmation, and I doubt very much whether 
there is any truth in the report. 
APHIDS (Aphididae) 
Eugenia McDaniel (December 5, 1924): On the 20th of November 
our Mr. Harman , Extension Specialist in insect control, reported 
a field at Portland as infested with plant lice. These were 
brought in and sent to Dr. Patch at Orono, Maine, for identifica- 
tion, since in Michigan aphid infestation of grain fields is 
rather unusual at this season of the year. Dr. Patch reports 
Mo.gr o si phum granarium and Hhopalosiphum prunifoliae . There 
really seems to be very little permanent damage done, although 
the field showed plainly the result of the attack. During the 
present autumn several other reports of similar attacks have been 
sent in, although in these cases it has not been possible to col- 
lect and identify the material. 
M. H. Swenk (October, November, and December, 1924): During the 
third week in October the English grain aphid appeared abundantly 
in some wheat fields in Adams County, in company with large num- 
bers of the aphid Geoica squamosa , and the two together caused a 
considerable amount of slight, scattering injury in the wheat 
fields of parts of that county before cold weather checked their 
increase. As late as the third week in November the English 
grain aphid was reported as abundant on volunteer barley in Dundy 
County. Another aphid attacking the roots of wheat was the 
apple-grain aphid. That, in company with Geoica squamosa , was 
found abundantly in volunteer wheat in Platte County during the 
second week in October. 
AEMY CUTWORM ( Choriyagrotis auxiliaris G-rote) 
J. W. McColloch (March 13): With regard to insect conditions in 
the State at this time, I might say that the army cutworm has 
become very abundant in the south-central part of the State. We 
now have reports of injury to wheat in the following Counties: 
Harper, Kingman, Reno, Barber, Clark, Kiowa and Russell. T*iis 
cutworm is also reported to be injuring alfalfa in Harper County, 
and to be cutting off onion tops in Reno County. I understand 
that this outbreak also extends through a considerable portion 
of Oklahoma. 
Oklahoma 
C. E. Sanborn (February and March): Outbreak similar to that 
of 1921. Reported in Harper, Woods, Ellis, Woodward, Dewey, 
Blaine, Custer and Roger Mills Counties. Twenty per cent of 
crop damaged, as much as 75 per cent in individual fields. 
Spociraena also from Texas and New Mexico. 
