ed range. 
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Brood XXIII of the periodical cicada is appearing over most of itc chart* 
The "boll '.veevil is reported .?,s tecoraing increar.in,?ly prevalent in Georgia, 
It is also reported from South Carolina, Oklahor^ia, Telas ,-?^'riS: llississippi. 
The tomato s-ock-fly is extending its range northeastwardly in Te::2,s. 
An interesting application of the ajLhidozer to survey rork is given under 
the items on the pea aphid. 
OUTSTAMDIIJG MTOMOLOGICAL FB/iTUEES FOR GAilATA FOB JTOTS, 1924. 
The cottony maple scale is reported to he spreading rapidly in the G-reater 
Vancouver District, B. C. , affecting a variety of shade and fruit trees including 
maple, chestnut, pear, apple, pl-um, and cherr;/. 
Tent caterpillars, of --vhich the forest tent caterpillar, Malabo sor.ia disstri r 
Ebn. , is the most injurious, are causing great damage in British Col'jmlDia from Arm- 
strong north to Salmon Arm '-jhere nee.rly all strawherry patches, as r;ell as raspherrj:' 
have heen devoured, and many fruit trees defoliated. The forest tent ca.terpillars 
have completely devotijred the v-ild hush and are migrating into all cultivated cro^os. 
Bruce 's meas-ojring yiot-w, Bachela hruceata Hulst, \7as infesting rrild hushes 
and apple trees around Armstrong, 3. G. , in imriiense numhers in early Ilay. Some 
T/ere full grorni hy I.iay 15. 
A very serious grasshopper outhreak is developing ever the rhole of the 
dry interior of British Coltamoia. Melanoplus spp. are mainly responsihle in the. 
Okanagan Valley ^here great loss is heing ezperienced in the vegetalDle and tomato 
fields, TThile Cannula, -jellucida Scud., is 6.oing great damage in the Hi cola- Kami oops 
area. 
The northern sedge caterpillar, Ctenucha virginica Cliarp. , has appeared 
in outhreak form in hogs and svramps in the locality of Treeshank, IlanitoDa, The 
larvae, ^ihich are present in ccjntless nunbers, usiially feed on various sedges, hut 
T/ill readily turn to grasses, especially hrome grass. 
Garden springtails have been causing ^"ouhle at Dartm.outh, IT.S. , xrhere 
they vere present in considerable nrsmbers dui'ing the latter part of l!iay, attacking 
young spinach seedlings. 
The sstin moth has been very materially reduced in nnmbers in the Vancouvc- 
district, B.C., doubtless ovdng to v^inter killing. Im oxaiiii nation of several stands 
of poplar revealed the larvae to be almost entirely absent from Lombardy poplar, and 
only in sufficient numbers in \7hite poplar to cause about 25 per cent defoliation. 
An extensive and destructive outbreak of the eastern spruce bark-beetle, 
is reported at Frater, Ont. 
