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Both the pickle rud melon worms were doing excessive danr.ce to 
cucurbits in the Charleston area of South Carolina, The pickle worn was 
reported as damaging these crops in Alabama and Mississippi. These insects 
were also more prevalent than usual in Maryland* 
The tobacco flea beetle was so numerous as to require the use of 
insecticides in the hurley tobacco districts of North Carolina and Tennessee. 
The fall webworm was more troublesome in southern Hew England than 
it has been in the past 20 years. It was also reported as- generally abun- 
dant in the Middle Atlantic States southward to Delaware. 
The spruce budworm has killed and is killing large areas of white 
fir in the vicinity of Halfway, near Whitman National Forest, Oregon, and 
in the Ochoco National Forest. 
Eye gnats have been worse this fall than they have been for many 
years in the South Atlantic and Gulf States from South Carolina to Texas. 
Associated with, these outbreaks are numerous cases of conjunctivitis. 
Various species of sand flies belonging to the genus Culicoides were 
quite prevalent from North Carolina to Florida and around the Gulf to 
Mississippi. 
The stable fly was very unusually prevalent in the South Atlantic 
and Gulf region from Maryland to Florida, Alabama, and Mississippi. The 
condition was so serious in Wicomico County, Md., that many horses and cattle 
were forced into the surf and drowned. 
During the past two months over 300 cases of damage to buildings by 
termites were reported to the Bureau of Entomology. The great majority of 
these cases were in the Southern States, but scattered reports were received 
as far north as Iowa, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. 
OUTSTANDING ENTOMOLOGICAL FEATURES IN CANADA FOR SEPTEMBER, 1931 
Reports of increasing grasshopper abundance and crop damage continue 
to be received from over a wide territory in the Dominion extending from 
Quebec to British Columbia. Species concerned are the lesser migratory 
and two-striped grasshoppers in the West, and the red-legged grasshopper in 
the East. 
Infestations of the wheat stem sawfly, ranging from heayy to light, 
are reported from sections of south-central Alberta, southern Saskatchewan, 
and southern Manitoba, damage in wheat fields varying from 1 to 75 per cent 
crop loss. 
Over much of southern Quebec, second-year white ':rubs have been causing 
extensive damage, particularly in unploughed sod areas, and considerable 
injury by these insects is anticipated in 1932. In eastern Ontario, the 
