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were completely denuded of foliage. The attack seemed to get less as 

 we got further inland till around Chilliwack and at Harrison on the 

 opposite side of the Fraser River, although the worms emerged in large 

 numbers, many of them dried up and did no further harm, while as a 

 whole, the most of them remained sluggish and nearly all were attacked 

 by parasites. What these were I have not been able to determine. A 

 rather bad, thougii isolated, attack of this insect was around Agassiz, 

 where many of the orchards and also the crab apple brush were defoliated. 

 This infestation did not extend beyond a mile east of Agassiz. I am 

 glad that the point has now been cleared up with regard to the feeding 

 habits of this insect. I think I was the first to report to the Department 

 at Ottawa that I had never seen it attack the foliage of the pear, but 

 this seemed to be pooh poohed down there. Now it has remained for 

 some of our American friends to make the same observation, and to 

 prove it. 



Red Humped Apple Tree Caterpillar, Schizura concinna, I found 

 doing extensive damage in the arid and semi-arid parts of the Fraser 

 Valley. It seemed to be most voracious, sometimes four or five caterpillars 

 would be hanging to the margin of a leaf gradually eating their way into 

 the midrib. One could almost fancy one could hear the sound of their 

 jaws when they were busy feeding. Some of them I found to be 

 attacked by the parasite Limneria. 



Fall Web Worm, Hyphantria textor. This insect is no respector 

 of plants when it wants food. All the deciduous trees seem to have 

 been made for it. It attacks the apple, plum, cherry, pear and peach in 

 the orchards ; and maple, choke cherry and thorn are rendered unsightly 

 by the destruction of the leaves and also by the filthy webs which remain 

 long after the foliage has disappeared. This web will be full of the 

 remains of the worms and their excreta. This insect extends its work 

 from the Fraser far into the interior. 



Several of the Cut Worms, Noctuids, did much injury in different 

 parts of the district. The first that I noticed was up the Coast about 20 

 miles, at Sechelt. A little later I found cut worms all the way down the 

 Fraser Valley between Lillooet and Lytton, where they had eaten ofif 

 such things as cabbages, tomatoes, cauliflowers, etc. In some cases these 

 had been planted three times before a crop could be insured. I may say 

 that I also saw the same grubs at Alberni near the West Coast of Van- 

 couver Island. 



Bud Moths, SpUonota (Tmetocera) ocellana, were very prevalent 

 and certainly injured such fruits as apple, plum and cherry, and more 

 especially the Italian prune, and I believe reduced the output of this 

 by 50 per cent. 



