. Bulletin. Insects; Insect pests; Entomology; Insects; Insect pests; Entomology. INSECTS MISTAKEN FOR CHINCH BUGS, 31 Forbes and the writer, the species will attack timothy only in cases where it is compelled to do so by reason of a lack of other food. In addition to the preceding, Doctor How^ard gives broom corn, sorghum, chicken corn, Bermuda grass {Cafviola dactylon)^ bluegrass {Poa pratensis)^ crab grass (JSyntherisma sanguinalis), and bottle grass (Ixophorus viridis), and also states that in the rice fields near Savannah, Ga., in August, 1881, he observed the winged adults upon the heads
. Bulletin. Insects; Insect pests; Entomology; Insects; Insect pests; Entomology. INSECTS MISTAKEN FOR CHINCH BUGS, 31 Forbes and the writer, the species will attack timothy only in cases where it is compelled to do so by reason of a lack of other food. In addition to the preceding, Doctor How^ard gives broom corn, sorghum, chicken corn, Bermuda grass {Cafviola dactylon)^ bluegrass {Poa pratensis)^ crab grass (JSyntherisma sanguinalis), and bottle grass (Ixophorus viridis), and also states that in the rice fields near Savannah, Ga., in August, 1881, he observed the winged adults upon the heads. Prof. H. A. Morgan w-rote that in 1807 it had become a serious enemy to " Providence " rice in Louisiana, where for tw^o years it had seriously injured corn, and the writer was informed through other sources that it proved injurious to corn again in 1898. Adults have often been found collected in the silk of belated ears of corn in the fields in September, when all other parts of the plant had either become too old and tough to a fiord nourishment or else had been killed by the frosts of autunni. Prof. Lawrence Bruner has recorded the insect as feeding upon so-called wild buckwheat {Polygonum (Ivmefonim or P. conrolimlxs)." The writer has never seen chinch bugs attack bluegrass {Poa pra- tcnms), and has seldom witnessed them in- juring oats, but on Sei)tember 27, 100-1, he observed larva^, pupa\ and adults, the last all fully winged, attacking Arrhenatherum (oat grass) on the experiment farm of the llniversity of Tennessee, at Knoxville. Over the western country the nuijor lior- F"-- 6—^>'«''- «».'/">/«<«..• i, pui«; ". rliii! r, mature biijj. (From Riley.) tion of the damage done is to fields oi wheat, barle}', rye, and corn, the outbreak generally originating in wheat or barley fields and the bugs migrating at harvest to the corn- fields. (See fig. 5.) In the eastern part of the country, where the timothy meadows are the most
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