HESSIAN FLY REARED IN THE LABORATORY

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It has always been claimed that there is but one brood of Hessian Fly in Minnesota. On June 25th of current year larvæ of Hessian Flyin second stage were found working on wheat in an adjoining county, brought to the Experiment Station and the wheat plant placed in moist sand in breeding jar in laboratory. These specimens quickly formed puparia, and one fly, a female, emerged July 19th. She lived about two days, before dying depositing between 80 and 90 eggs on green blade of wheat and on dried wheat stem in breeding cage. The eggs were laid indiscriminately on leaf and stem, some singly, some in clusters of two or three and some in strings attached by ends.