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The oniori nasgot s'jid the cahhage naggot are serious pests in the Ottawa 
district of Ontario and (^uehoc. In sone fields the onion naggot has destroyed 
50 percent of the iseedlings. 
The Eurs^pean earv/ig has increased in nunhers in the Vancouver district, 
British Colujahia,,. prohahly as a result of the nild winter. 
At VinGi}.and Station, in the Uiagara district, Ontario, the first codling 
noth adult eporged fron tree hands on May 30 » several days lator than at any 
tine in the last several years, 
0?he eye-spotted hudrioth appears to he the nost prevalent insect in apple 
orchards in the Annapolis Valley, ITova Scotia, this season. 
The strawberry weevil has been more injurious in the Niagara district, 
Onta,rio, than for many years. Severe damage by this pest in strav/berry planta- 
tions xvas also reported in Prince Edwa,rd Islrnd, 
Specimens of the brown dog tick ( Bh ip i c ephalus sanguineus Latr.) were taken 
fron a. dog at Espanola in northern Ontario in Ma,rch, This appears to be a nei'j 
record for Opnada, The animal ha,d visitod Washington and New York the previous 
November, 
• ^The Eocky Moimtain spotted fever or para-lysis tick ( Pernacentor andersoni 
Stiles) is extremely abundant in southern Alberta and has boon found at Swift 
Current^ Saskatchevran, the most easterly record in Canada, Several yearling 
colts infested by the ticks in the latter locality died of tick paralysis, 
constituting tpe first authenticated report of the disease in Saskatchewan, 
UBRARY 
STATE PLANT BOARP 
