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Although its numbers 'were reduced materially by the January freeze, 
the spiraea aphid '7as appearing in unusually heavy infestations by the end 
of April in Florida. Unusually heavy infestations in the citrus groves in 
southern California "anfe also reported this year. 
The Harlequin bug is appearing in large numbers over the Gulf region 
and in the South Atlantic States. 
The Mexican bean beetle appeared in Alabama 13 days later than last 
year, and present indications are that winter survival will be very low in that 
State. 
The horseradish flea beetle has been reported for the first time 
from the State of Missouri and is doing serious damage in commercial plantings 
in St, Louis County. 
An unusual report of damage by the periocidal. cicada was received 
from the northern part of New Jersey, where the Dupae had practically ruined 
a lawn in making their emergence holes. 
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During the latter part of the month a very serious outbreak of 
Buffalo gnnts developed in Tallahatchee County, Miss. Approximately 100 
head of horses and mules died as a result of this outbreak. 
OUTSTANDING ENTOMOLOGICAL FEATURES IN CANADA FOE THE MONTH OF APRIL, 1928 
It is anticipated that grasshoppers will be below normal in British 
Columbia during 1928, Last year grasshopper outbreaks declined rapidly in 
many sections and heavy cold spring rains followed by a wet summer markedly 
reduced grasshopper abundance. In Saskatchewan, reports received late in l n 
indicate th-. t grasshoppers which have been scarce in that province since 
1924 are decidedly on the increase. 
The estimated damage during 1927 in Saskatchewan by the wheat- 
stem sawfly, has been placed at $4,565,000; by wireworms at $4,145,000, 
and by cutworms at $695,000. The total damage by these three pests in thus 
a little less than one half of that of 1926, 
During the past t^o seasons, the potato stem-borer, Hydroecia 
micacia Esp, has been found or reported in every county in New Brunswick 
-1th the exception of Madawaska and Northumberland, It also appears to have 
a general distribution in Nova Scotia, 
The eye-spotted budmoth gpilonota ocellnna D. &, S. , has increased 
in numbers during the past three years in the St. John river valley and 
N rth Shore sections of New Brunswick, 
The budmoth species, Pr.nclernis limitnta Rob., and Cacoecia 
p^rsicana Fitch, have been found in orchards at many points in Kings County, 
N. S. These species probably occur throughout the Nova Scotia, fruit belt. 
