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The larvae of a weevil ( Phytonomus rumicis L.) was found in destructive 
numbers on commercially grown sorrel in Connecticut. This European pest 
was first recorded in this country in Iowa in 1917. 
The Colorado potato beetle appears to be abnormally abundant over 
the greater part of the Eastern States this year. 
The Mexican bean beetle increased rapidly during the month and wa,s 
reported in destructive numbers throughout the greater part of its range. 
This insect was found for the first time in Illinois this month. 
The pea aphid is making decided inroads on the cannery pea crop in 
Ohio, Michigan, and Wisconsin. 
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The pink boll worm has been discovered this spring in Florida at 
Miami and extending south to Key West. The infested region is some 400 
miles from commercial cotton plantings. 
The European pine shoot moth is now in flight in New England and is 
appearing in increasingly destructive numbers in that region and in New 
York State. 
A Japanese weevil ( Pseudocneorrhinnus setosus Roelofs) which was 
first recorded in New Haven, Conn., in 1920, is this year proving to be 
somewhat of a pest of privet and barberry. 
THE MORE IMPORTANT ENTOMOLOGICAL FEATURES IN CANADA, FOR JUNE, 1932. 
The grasshopper situation is serious in the Prairie Privinces, par- 
ticularly in southern and central Manitoba, where the worst outbreak in 
mere than fifty years is reported over a wide territory. Widespread areas 
are also affected in south and central Saskatchewan, but although the out- 
break is severe it is lees intense than in Manitoba. The situation in 
Alberta : s much better than was anticipated, a general heavy downpour of 
rain-early in May having caused a high mortality of the young njjmphs. The 
species involved throughout the affected territory are the lesser migra- 
tory, two-striped, and clear-winged grasshoppers. 
Over a large part of Saskatchewan and Alberta, the pale western cut- 
worm is again in severe outbreak form, and is causing very serious crop 
losses. The outbreak is c on side rob 1*' more extensive than in 1931. The 
army cutworm also has increased materially in the Prairie Provinces, out- 
breaks having occurred in majiy localities in southern Alberta and south- 
western Saskatchewan, where important crop damage, usually mixed with pale 
western cutworm damage, was effected. Army cutworm moths were present in 
great numbers and have attracted much attention, not only in Alberta and 
Saskatchewan, but also in southern Manitoba, where the species is not a 
pest. Another species, the red-backed cutworm, is occurring over a wide 
territory in the Prairie Provinces, but severe damage has been done only 
in localized areas, notably in Manitoba. 
