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Numerous reports were received from the prune and pear growing sections 
of Oregon of severe damage caused by the pear thrips. In the fruit "belt of Mew 
York State little commercial damage has been occasioned by this pest. 
The peak of the second generation of oriental peach moth larvae was 
reached the first week in May in the Fort Valley section of Georgia. This pest 
was reported for the first time from Holly Springs, Miss. 
The plum curculio is mu.cn more numerous than it has been for a number of 
years in Georgia and South Carolina. It is ri'so actively attacking the fruit 
crops in parts of Missouri. 
Following the excessive rainfall in Missouri, damage by the seed com 
maggot is being reported. This insect also did considerable damage in parts 
of Arizona. 
Reports of severe cutworm damage do not seam to be so prevalent this 
season as during the last two years. Cabbage plants in seed beds have been 
severely damaged in parts of Mew York State, and the peppermint fields in 
Kalamazoo and Clinton Counties, Michigan, have already been severely attacked 
by these insects. 
The corn ear worm is reported &s much more abundant in the Fuerte Val- 
ley of Mexico than it has been during the past four seasons: ir u toma- 
toes ranging from 1 to 2S per cent. This insect also appears to be very nu- 
merous in Alabama where adults were observed on April 17, and the first eggs 
of the season on April 21. These two reports from the southern extremities of 
the contiment may indicate a year of unusual abundance of this pest. 
The cotton flea hopper was hatching in rather large numbers from South 
Carolina to Texas. 
Very severe damage by wireworms to tobacco is reported from the ChacU 
bourn section of North Carolina where damage runs in some cases from ^d 'I o 
90 per cent . 
An unusual outbreak of the Santo 'Domingo cane butterfly was reported 
from Haiti, and the most severe outbreak of the sugar-cane beetle ever recorded 
is now under way in Mississippi. 
OUTSTANDING ENTOMOLOGICAL M ES IN CANADA. FCR MAY, 1527 
Grasshoppers greatly decreased in numbers in souther - " British Columbia 
during *he late summer of 1926, and only the Peace River block and the Cariboo 
district are expected to experience severe outbreaks during the present season. 
Wirewo.ms caused an estimated crop loss of H>3f5COiCOO in the province of 
Saskatchewan during 192$, and present indications are that, with average spring 
weather conditions, they will cause higher thi in 1927. V.'ire- 
worms continue to be the most widespread insect pest in Alberl . 
The western wheat-stem s , st serious pest of the 
year in Saskatchewan during 192$, cai an estimated financial loss of 
