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An outbreak of the grapevine f lea.- "beetle is anticipated in the Niagara 
district, Ont. , during the coining season. 
The woolly aphis is on the increase in British Columbia, where it is doing 
considerable damage in some sections. 
The larch sawfly is becoming abundant again in the Maritime Provinces. Fur- 
ther injury may also be expected in the forests west and north of Lake Superior, 
the infestation extending across northern Alberta. 
A very bad outbreak of tent caterpillars is anticipated in southern Saskat- 
chewan and southern Alberta during 1925, with consequent serious defoliation of 
poplars over extensive areas. Serious trouble is also expected over wide areas 
in British Columbia. 
There is every evidence that the outbreaks of spruce budworm which occurred 
in 1924 in northern Ontario, Cape Breton Island, and the Bouyn district, northern 
Quebec, will continue during 1925. 
Serious outbreaks of the Douglas fir bark-beetle, Den droc tonus pseud o*sugae 
Hopk. , in stands of Douglas fir on Vancouver Island, and injuries to standing cedar 
by the western cedar borer, Trac hykele blondeli Mars. , are causing anxiety in 
British Columbia. 
Every effort is being made to stamp out the infestation of the gipsy moth 
discovered in Quebec at Lacolle late last summer. ' The infestation covers an area 
of about one-third of a square mile. * 
The warble fly, Hvpoderm^ a bovis DeG-. , has spread in Manitoba to such an 
extent that very few herds are free from it in the southern and central portions 
of the Province. 
