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large part of Michigan and Wisconsin, with serious outbreaks in parts 
of Wisconsin. . . 
Very serious damage to Asparagus plumosus has been reported from 
the commercial ferneries in Palm Beach County, Florida, where a cicada 
( Dicero-procta viridifascia Walk. ) is killing out the plantations, the 
nymphs feeding on the roots of this plant. Another cicada ( Tibicen 
cinctifera Uhler) is emerging in large numbers in Phoenix, Ariz., and, 
though swarming in the citrus trees, has, so far, done, no commercial 
damage. 
OUTSTANDING ENTOMOLOGICAL FEATURES IN CANADA FOR AUGUST, 1930 
Cutworms have continued to cause serious damage to field and garden 
crops, particularly in the Prairie Provinces. The outbreak of the pale 
western cutworm is heavy and widespread in Saskatchewan, and general in 
Alberta, and the red-backed cutworm has occasioned much crop loss in 
southwestern Manitoba and southeastern Saskatchewan, and in Alberta. 
Grasshoppers are a serious pest on the Chilcotin ranges, in British 
Columbia, but. elsewhere in the Dominion no outstanding crop damage has 
been reported. 
Extensive and heavy infestations of the Colorado potato beetle 
are noted from sections of the Marit lines, southern Ontario, and southern 
Saskatchewan. 
The striped cucumber beetle has increased in abundance over 1929 
in southern sections of New Brunswick and Ontario. 
Cabbage and onion root maggots are reported to have shown a material 
increase in numbers over last year in southern Alberta and the Okanagan 
V a lley, British Columbia. 
The fruit-tree leaf-roller occurred in injurious numbers in orchard 
sections of Ontario, north of Lake Ontario. 
The ugly-nest caterpillar is reported in abundance on choke-cherry 
in southern sections of New Brunswick and Manitoba. 
The raspberry cane borer has increased markedly in southern Ontario 
and southern Quebec. 
In the orchards of southern Quebec the apple curculio is proving 
to be the worst insect pest of the season. 
The rose chafer occurred in destructive abundance in sections of 
southern Ontario. 
