OUTSTANDING ENTOMOLOGICAL FEATURES IN CANADA FOR MAY,19 2 ^ 
The out "break of Dendrroctonus m onticol a Hopk. in lodgepole pine at 
Mart in- -Mountain, 3. C, has extended very rapidly since last year. During 
the control operations commenced this season over 25,000 infested trees have 
"been marked for cutting. 
An extensive out "break of Dendroctonus beetles in spruce has beai 
discovered in the forests near Prince Rupert, B. C. 
Control work conducted for the last two years on the pine batk beetle 
outbreak in the Aspen Grove forest, British Columbia, where 300,0C0,C00 feet 
of yellow pine was threatened with destruction, has resulted in the infestation 
being almost entirely removed. It is believed thattthe success obtained is 
due in lar^e measure- to the rigid enforcement of slash "burning throughout the 
yellow pine area. 
Grasshoppers are not expected to cause any serious trouble in southern 
Manitoba during 1925. 
An outbreak of the "black army-cutworm Agrotis fe nnica Tausch. , occurred 
over a limited area near Ottawa, Ont., during May. Some damage was done to clover 
and pjeas, but the outbreak was early checked "by a fungus disease which destroyed 
the majority of- the larvae. 
The cricket, Anabrus longipes Caudell, is occurring in outbreak 
form at Kelowna and Vernon, B. C. 
The leaf roller Cacoecia rosana. Ly is steadily spreading in the 
orchards- of the Saanich peninsula, B.C. 
There was a heavv deposition of eggs of the pear psylla, Psyllia 
pyr icola Forst. , in the orchards of the Burlington and Niagara districts., Ont., 
by the end of April. 
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