Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1921-02-18 | Page 7 | Green Bugs Invade Fields of Kansas

GREEN BUGS INVADE FIELDS OF KANSAS KANSAS CITY. Feb 18. Myriads of green Iuul 'ho Identity of WhlCn i has not been established, have appear-e.l appear-e.l in i 1 1 !.i iiorna. and nre advancing to-j wards the Kansas whe.U fo lds, according accord-ing to information received here. Crops in the Infested district ir"-, seriously threatened, according to a! I message from Oklahoma City, which quoted Thomas R. Gordon, state entomologist, en-tomologist, as announcing he would leave there immediately to Investigate-Gordon Investigate-Gordon said the bugs had entered Oklahoma Ok-lahoma from Texas. J. C. Mohler, secretary of the Kansas Kan-sas state board of agriculture, announced an-nounced the bugs have reached the. Kansas border, making a clean nwoep 'of as much wheat as they can cover, j Cooler days will stop the hugs, Mr. Mohler said, but their growth has not been retarded by the cool nights as has the growth of the parasites whl hi destroy them. oo