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An outbreak of the roadside grasshopper, Cannula oellucida 
Scuider, has occurred in the Chilcotin ranges and surrounding 
country in British Columbia. Poisoned baits are being distributed 
at all infested points. 
Wireworms have been by far the chief pest of field crops in 
southern Saskatchewan this spring.* Recent heavy rains resulted 
in a partial recovery of the damaged crops in many fields. 
The red-backod cutworm has infested about 50 per cent of the 
sugar-beet fields in southern .alberta, resulting in from 25 to 
100 per cent loss. The infestation in wheat, sweet clover, and 
alfalfa is light, but some field? show as high a loss as 15 per 
cent. 
Cutworms have been rather generally troublesome in gardens 
in southern Saskatchewan. This'partly due to early hatching and 
the very dry conditions this spring. Several species were involved. 
May booties appeared in large numbers ov^r sxtensive areas 
in southwestern Quebec during May and caused serious damage to 
the foliage of several species of deciduous trees. May beetle flights 
were al^o ob f j_rved locally in "New Brunswick during the latter 
part of May and ^arly June. 
Up to the middle of June, no adults or larvae of the Mexican 
bean beetle had been found in Ontario in localities where in- 
festations were discovered last year. 
Overwintering adults of grape leafhoppers are present in 
sufficiently large numbers in the Niagara peninsula, Ontario, 
10 give rise, under favorable conditions, to local outbreaks. 
Reports from Nova Scotia, I runswick, and British Columbia 
indicate that aphid: are not abundant in these provinces this 
on. 
A survey of the 7,uroT>^an beech bark louse situation in N 
Bruns-.-ick shows that there is a very h ion of this 
species in . bmi r 1 .nd County and one of less severity Lbert 
County. 
ports from British Col , , Ontario » 
Queuec, and 7ick, indicate that t caterpillars of 
several species, principally the fo. I he 
ad 
areas in the Dominion, A nt 
caterpill ir the naif of Alb 
northwestern Saakatch , iriously defoliating native poplars* 
