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CEREAL AND FORAGE INSECTS 
White grubs attrant sea gulls,--"The Biological Survey has 
brought to the notice of this office," reports W. B.- Cartwright, 
Sacramento, Calif., "an interesting case of sea gulls and white 
grub damage to a olf course at San Francisco. One hundred and 
twenty-five acres ef. the course are infested with white grubs, with 
@ maximum count of 200 grubs per square yard. The gulls damage the 
fairways by pulling the turf up and rolling it back or tearing it 
completely loose in search of the grubs. Jointly, the: trouble and 
damage were aa course one thousand dollars in December." 
Corn meal in n bait for tipulid control.--Mr. Cartwright also 
reports that an initial test of & corn meal-paris green bait, broad— 
cast over a small area of range infested with the range crane fly,. 
Tipula guaylii Doane, gave a 95 percent kill on January 15. The 
conditions were optimum for an even distribution of the mixture, 
which later tests did not have, and did not ensure a practical con- 
trol. The minimum proportions of poison and meal was 2:100. 
Chinch bug wintering in volunteer wheat.--W. T. Emery, Wichita, 
Kans., reports that the volunteer wheat serving as winter coverage 
for the chinch bug (Blissus leucopterus Say) averaged 52 bugs per 
clump in three’ clumps examined. A square foot of Andropogon border- 
ing a wheat ficld contained 142 bugs. 
Chinch bugs wintering successfully in northern Indiana.--P. Lugin- 
bill and W. B. Noble report that hibernating chinch bugs evidently 
suffered very little mortality in the vicinity of Lafayette, Ind., 
up to January 19. Out of 465 bugs in bunches of corn husks taken 
from the field on that date, only 5 percent were dead. Up to that 
time the weather was very mild, the lowest. temperature recorded at 
Lafayette being -2°, with very little snow, and precipitation con- 
siderably below normal. 
Final series hybrid wheat selections examined,—-E. T, Jones, 
Wichita, Kans., reports that examination of the final series of F 
and Fg generation hybrid wheat selections for the 1934 crop year ie 
been comploted. Although the infestations were slight, a trend 
toward resistance to the hessian fly was shown for the hybrids, 

Hessian fly larvae passing winter in’ good condition.--J. R, 
Horton, Wichita,.reports that dissections of over 300 puparia of the 
fall generation of Phytophaga destructor Say during December and Jan- 
vary indicate that approximately 93 percent of the larvae are viable 
and that over 55 percent have reversed their position in the puparia. 
Soil moisture is sufficient, although no precipitation was recorded 
during the latter half.of the month. The mean temperature. for the 
latter half of January.was 40.9° F 
