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Cutworms are also reported doing extensive injury to many kinds cf field ana 
garden crops at points in the Maritime Provinces, southern Ontario, ana British 
Columbia. 
Wireworms , principally Ludius aer eipe.nn is Kir'oy and, tc a lesser extent, 
Cr y rtohyp nus n octu .rnus Esch ., have caused widespread injury to seed 2nd young 
nts in southern Saskatchewan. Reports of se\ r ere damage by wireworms have 
been received also from the Trees bank district, Manitoba, and from the New Dayton 
and Foremost districts, Alberta. 
The rose chafer is very abundant and destructive in several of the sandy sec- 
tions of so uth em nt ar i o . 
Cankerwosms have caused defoliation in many neglected apple orchards in Hol- 
land, Lincoln. Wentworth, and Brant Counties, Ontario. They have been troublesome 
also in orchards of the Annapolis Valley, N. S., and in the ivoodsd country at Gatin- 
eau Point , Que . 
The tent caterpillar out creak in southern Saskatchewan has been as severe as 
An .1.924, despite the high percentage of mortality due to parasitism and disease last 
year. Tent caterpillars have been complained of as trouble?/, i in' 3rd . rris i 
Lower Fraser Valley, S. C, and in the Hemmingford district, Quebec. Very little 
trouble has ueexi experienced this year in the Maritime ^Provinces . 
The larch case bearer is abundant on larch throughout New Brunswick and is 
severely defoliating tamaracks throughout the Annapolis Valley. N. S. 
The oak and hickory plant bugs, Lygus o.uer caiba Kngt. and L. caryae Kngt . are 
again abundant and injurious in many peach orchards in the Niagara district, Ontario 
GRASSHOPPERS (Acridiidae and Locus tidae) 
Florida F. S,. Chamberi.ln (June 19): Grasshopper attacks, although rather 
severe early in the tobacco-growing season, have now ceased. The 
species most common at Quincy this season were Melanpplus atlanis 
Rilej , Mel i nonius .propicriu^s McNeill, jShortonhaga yi rid if as cid, 
DeGrsi*. ^;^L^.^?irg. ca.-oJ ina L., and Or e_nu_?. 6 11a p e 1 id na Burm. 
Missouri L. Easeman (June 2.Z) : As yet no complaints of real grasshopper 
damage have begun to come into the office, but from field observa- 
tions grasshoppers are quite abundant throughout different sections 
of the. State and if later in the season unusually dry weather should 
develop, we shall probably have a considerable number of complaints. 
Nebraska M. H. Swenk (May 25r-June 25): The first reports of trouble with 
grasshoppers in this Stats were received June 19 from Dawes County. 
