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CEREAL AND FORAGE INSECT INVESTIGATIONS 
W. R. Walton, Entomologist In Charge. 


















A new field station has been established at Carlisle, Pa., W. R. McConnell is 
in charge of the station and is assisted by P. R. Myers. The street address of the 
jew laboratory is 227 Moreland Avenue. The field station at Hagerstown will be con- 
anued as before, under the direction of J. A. Hyslop. The major project at the new 
station will be the investigation of the parasites of the Hessian fly, upon which Mr, 
icConnell has been working for several years past. 
| The sntomological field station formally located at Brownsville, Texas, has 
been transferred to San Antonio, Texas, R. A, Vickery will be in charge of this 
station and T, S. Wilson and Felix Garcia have also been transferred from Browns- 
Jie to San Antonio in order to assist him. 
There has been a very brisk demand for copies of the white-grub poster 
recently issued from this office and the supply is practically exhausted at the pre- 
gent time. A poster dealing with the chinch-bug situation is in press and should 
be ready for distribution within the next ten days, Arrangements have been made to 
distribute this widely throughout the infested region by means of cooperation with 
the State Relations Service, 
A post card summarizing the methods of control for the Hessian fly is being 
published and will be given very thorough distribution throughout the eastern half 
of Kansas and surrounding States, wherever danger from this pest threatens, The 
distribution of this will also be accomplished through cooperation with the States 
Relations Service. 
C. W. Creel and EB. J. Taylor are in western Montana assisting the State 
authorities in the control of a very serious grasshopper outbreak which has occured 
in the neighborhood of the Flathead Indian Reservation, Good progress in the 
Control of this outbreak has been reported by Mr. Creel. 
: Charles H. Gable has been appointed for a period of three months to assist 
f. D. Urbahns on on the grasshopper control investigations, in California, a wide- 
Spread outbreak of grasshoppers having cccurred in this State during the past month. 
Dr. J. M. Aldrich is at present on an extended trip in connection with the 
economic species of Oscinidae. He will return to his field station at West 
La Fayette, Ind., shortly after the first of July. 
NOTES FROM THE WELLINGTON (KANS.) FIELD STATION. 
June 1917. 
We were expecting a large flight of Lachnosterna adults, but have been dis- 
appointed. Only a few came to the lights. 
We would request that field men who are in the vicinity of wheat fields in- 
fested with Hessian fly, send us material as frequently as convenient. We would 
like to have stubble collected once each week from a field and sent to the labor- 
—atory. 
We would like to have Eleodes from any of the western stations, During a 
"recent trip through Nebraska, it was ascertained that larvae of Eleodes spp had 
done a great deal of damage in western Kansas and western Nebraska in the fall of 
—6«1926. 
At present there is a rather serious infestation of wireworms in Nebraska 
and northern Kansas. 
