Proceedings, 1'J14. 17 



Fruit-leaf Beetle {Sijiieta ulhida). 



A number of S)iGciincns of this beetlp were scut in frum Kami. B.C.. whcro tUcy 

 wei'e reporter! to be doing damage to strawberries and clover. In Oregon this insect 

 is reported to cau.se serious damage to the foliage of fruit-trees, and no satisfactory 

 control measures have so far been found. 



Flea-eeetles {Epitrix .'<iihcii}iit(i) . 



These insects appeared in large numbers this year, and in some sections did 

 a great deal of injury to tcmiato plantations. Potato-fields were in like manner 

 attacljed and damaged Ii.v tlie insects, which also fed freely upon the lamb's-quarters 

 and other weeds aliout the lields. 



Bkonze Apple-borer (yagdalis aiicscens). 



This insect is very connnonly found boring into the injured wood of apple-trees. 

 Though I have not seen this insect enter an absolutel.v soimd tree, it may sometimes 

 be found lioring from diseased wood into the Iiealthy tissue. 



Click-beetles (Elateridie). 



Though practicall.v nothing has l)een written on the leaf-eating hal)its of thesi^ 

 insects, they every year do considerable damage in the Oljanagau by feeding upon 

 the buds and tender foliage of aiiple-trees. Lilie the climbing cutworms, these 

 insects prefer young trees, one-, two-, and three-year-old trees being injured worst. 

 As no satisfactor.y remed.v is at present in vogue, a knowledge of the life-history and 

 early habits of these insects is very desirable. 



The most common and injurious species is Corymhites inflatus. This; spring I 

 found a very severe infestation at Shorfs Point of Cardiopliorus fenestratus. 



Other species taken from orchards in the Okauagan are : Corymhites moruliifi, 

 C. fallax, C. maunis, C. furtivus, C. canjungenn. C. acripennis, C. cruciata, C. 

 triundulatus, Cardiopliorus tenebrosus, Elater nigrimis, Dolopiiis lateralis, Limoniun 

 pilosns (iiifuscatiis), L. discoideus, L. venahlcxi, L. cauKs, Cardiopliorus tiimidicnilis. 



Grey Leaf-beetle {Glyptoscelis ptibescens?) . 



This insect is present in abundance in the spring, feeding mainly upon 

 Bulsamorrhixa sagiHata, but it occasionally attacks apple-foliage. 



Currant Fruit-fly (Epochra canadensis). 



Considerable damage was done to the currants this season by this pest. 



Raspberry-cane JIaggot (Plwrhia mhivora). 



Tliough I have never taken this insect in the Okanagan. numbers of specimens 

 have been sent in from otlier sections of the Province. 



Onion-maggot (Pegomyia ccparum). 



Fairly common in gardens alxjut Vernon. 

 The Hyacinth-mite (Rhizaglypliux hyacintlii >. 



This spring my attention was called to an onion plantation at Vernon where a 

 large proportion of the young onions were withering and dying away. On examining 

 the roots and young bulbs, they were found to be covered b.v these mites, whicli in 

 many cases had burrowed right into the root. If these mites over become widely 

 injurious, control will be rendered ditliiult by the fact that they have no res|iiratory 

 system. 



The Red Spider i'l'rtriiiiiirlnis hiiiiiiriildliix) and the Brown Mite (llri/nliid 

 liiatrnsis). 



Both these mites were eonnnon in the Olcan.igan this year, but the former was 

 present in much larger numbers and responsible for mure daniag<'. 



