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The seed corn maggot in general I'd hot abnormally abundant over 
the Eastern States, but in the Norfolk truckings section it has occasioned 
serious losses. 
The gray sugarcane mealybug ( Pseudococcus boninsis Kuwana) is re- 
corded for the first time from Mississippi, where it was collected late in 
March at Melton. 
Very serious injury -to forest nursery seedlings (coniferous ever- 
greens) by the strawberry root Weevil is reported from Michigan. ' This is 
the first record of this kind in Michigan in the past 30 years. 
A very heavy .infestation Of pine by 'the sawf ly - TJe o dip r i on d yari Roh. 
is reported from Madison' '-'County, ITo'rth Carolina. 
j Buffalo gnats are again appearing in '.the ..Yazoo region of Mississippi 
where reports of fatalities among mules and horses are already being re- 
ceived.' A similar outbreak occurred last year in this region. 
OUTS?ASI)Ii^ EiTTOMOLOO-ICAL ^iATUKJS IK 3-AifADl ?Qfi APRIL, 1929. 
The field and garden crops of Canada, during 1928, were compara- 
tively free from severe losses due to insect depredations. 
The outbreak of the Bertha armyworm, Berathra conf igurata Walk., 
during 1928 affected Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and a large part of 
British Columbia, causing losses principally to sweet clover, alfalfa, 
flax, and garden crops. Destructive outbreaks of this insect are of recent 
date . 
Indications point to a repetition during 1929 of the outbreak of 
the bronzed cutworm, Nephe lodes emmedonia Cram., in the Tantramar Marshes, 
l\Tew Brunswick, where last j.-ear it destroyed 2,000 acres of hay crop. 
Grasshoppers are reported as increasing in sandy localities of 
Manitoba, and also in the Bulkley Valley, Kicola Valley,. .and the Chilcotin 
and Braser River areas, in British Columbia. 
Wireworms continue to be the most serious insect pest of the prai- 
ries. In Saskatchewan the loss of the wheat crop in 1928 was estimated at 
nearly $4,000,000. 
The wheat stem sawfly, Cephas cinctus Nort., was at its lowest ebb 
for some years, during 1928. The loss occasioned by this insect, however, 
was estimated at well over $4,000,000, in Saskatchewan alone. 
The Colorado potato beetle is reported as decidedly on the increase 
in Manitoba and elsewhere in the Prairie Provinces. 
