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and 10-15 percent for the Dafoe- Buchanan district. The Peace River 
district of Albert a was also affected, and crop losses occurred locally 
in southwestern Ontario and the interior of British Columbia. 
Reports of injury to vegetable crops by flea beetles have boon 
received from Quebec, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and British Columbia,. 
The species Phyllotreta albionica Lee. destroyed many young cruci- 
ferous plants on Vancouver Island and on the mainland of British 
Columbia. 
Heavy flights of the rose chafer occurred locally in light sandy 
areas in southern Ontario. Damage to crops was expected to be negligible. 
The sweetclovor weevil ( Sitona cylindricollis P.) has been found 
to be widely distributed in Manitoba and has caused severe damage to 
sweetclovor in many localities. It had not been previously recorded 
west of the Georgian Bay region of Ontario. 
Moderate flights of the beet webworm during the latter part of 
May and early in June were reported from several localities in Manitoba 
and Saskatchewan. A fairly general flight occurred over most of 
southern Alberta. 
Untreated cabbage plants in southwestern Ontario have suffered 
severely from attacks of the cabbage maggot. 
The apple grain aphid was unusually abundant in apple orchards 
of Nova Scotia and southern Ontario, and the rosy apple aphid also 
appeared In injurious numbers in some sections of these two regions. 
However, apparently neither species proved to be a serious pest. 
Injury to fruit buds by the tarnished plant bug was prevalent 
this spring in orchards of the Okanagan Valley, British Columbia. 
The oriental fruit moth infestation on peach in the Niagara 
district, Ontario, is reported as low. 
