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The flax armyworrn, B arathra conf igurata Walk. , is more abundant then ever 
before in certain sections cf southern Alberta, attaching alfalfa, sweet clover, 
garden flowering plants and weeds. 
There have been few reports of severe cutworm damage from any part of 
the Dominion. 
Difficulty in effectively controlling the Colorado potato beetle 
this season owing to the frehuent rains washing off spraying materials, has been 
reported from sections of the Maritime Provinces and Ontario. In southern Mani- 
tobia, this insect has decidedly increased in numbers over 192°, but it has been 
a serious pest in only a few localities, heavy infestations are reported from 
southern Alberta. 
The European earwig is increasing rapidly in the Vancouver and New '.Vest- 
minster districts, British Columbia, where houses and gardens are heavily infested. 
There has been a severe outbreak of the green apple aphid in Ontario, 
which, in intensity and duration, has been the worst yet experienced. 
Fruit tree leaf -rollers have been very scarce throughout the Chanag 
Va 1 ley , Br i t i sh Columbia , thi s sea son . 
lumbers" of the introduced codling moth parasite Ascogaster cartoocawsre 
Vier. have been liberated at points in the Okanagan Valley and southeastern 
British Columbia . 
Fir and spruce sawflies, jgeodiorion abietis Harr. . .and Pac hynema t us . . 
ocreatus Harrington, are widespread and unusually abundant in southern I'anitoba;. 
The infestation of the spruce bud worm in the southern half of Cape 3reton 
Island, affecting spruce, balsam, hemlock, and larch, is decidedly less severe f. 
in 192S. Spruce and balsam trees dead or dying from the attack of this insect 
are heavily infested with honoch a mus scutellatus Sa . 
The house mosquito, C ulex -pi pi ens L. has "oeea found developing in immense 
numbers in extensive semistagnant backreaches of the Ottawa River at Kawhesbury, 
Ontario. 
