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An outbreak of the fall cankerworrn is occurring in certain sections 
of southern alberta, about SO per cent of boxelders and willows in shelter 
belts being affected. 
Wireworms, principally ludius aere ipenni s (Kby. ) , have caused an 
average of 10 per cent injury to -heat over practically the whole of 
southern Alberta, south of latitude 52°. 
Cutworms are causing serious damage to field and garden crops over a 
great part of Manitoba, 
The pear leaf blister mite is markedly on the increase in apple 
orchards of the Okanagan Galley, British Columbia. 
Stem-mothers of the green apple aphis, the rosy aphis, and the 
black cherry aphis were cdmnarat ively scarce in the Niagara district, Ontario, 
this spring. 
The eye-spotted budmotr. 'S on the increase in apple orchards in the 
Hemmingford and Quebec distrii cs, Quebec. 
Mosquitoes of the genus Aedec are reported as very abundant and 
troublesone in many 'sections of Ontario, Quebec, and Hew Brunswick, This 
is probably largely due to the high river levels in early spring, which 
caused floods at freshet time. 
An unusual abundance of iinooheles macul ipennis Meig. was noted 
in the Edmonton - w'abaraum district, Alberta, during April- 
