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The beetle Epicauta fis silabri s Lee. has appeared in outbreak 
form in the Vernon district and near Creston, British Columbia, destroying 
the folinge of eompositae and attacking potatoes, alfalfa, and wheat. 
The parsnip webworrn, which is common on wild parsnip on marshlands 
and roadsides in the Penciac Valley, New Brunswick, has infested about 60 
per cent of the :1 ■ ;? clusters of cultivated parsnip grown for seed in 
the Frederick;:! district. 
The green apple anhis and the £©3y aphis are scarce this year in 
sections of the Annapolis valley, Nova Scotia, where last year they were 
present in severe outbreak form. 
The apple maggot is seriously infesting apples in the Acacia Valley 
and at Bear River, Nova Scotia. 
The eye-spotted budmoth has caused considerable injury in neglected 
apple orchards in sections of southern Quebec and the Annapolis Talley, 
Hbva Scotia. The ol Liq-c sanded leaf roller infested 15 per cent of apple, 
pear, and plum in sections of the Ckanagan Galley, British Columbia, and 10 
per cent of apples in Zings County, Nova Scotia, Leaf rollers have increased 
considerably in the Eemmingford district, Quebec, and there is a probability 
of a serious outbreak in 1927. 
The plum curculio has been responsible for serious damage to apples in 
sections of southern Quebec. 
The strawberry root weevil, Br arch yr hinus ov atus L,, is becoming a serious 
pest at Armstrong, British Columbia-, The strawberry weevil, Anthonomus 
fkanatus Say, has been causing damage in sections of Nova Scotia and southern 
fcju cos c. 
The aphid MvTaphis abietin? Tfelker was found infesting 20 per cent of 
the tideland Sitka spruce on G;o.een Charlotte Is! avis- at Alert Bay, Vancouver 
Island, and on the r inland of British C " La, near Prince Rupert, during 
May. The injury, which resulted in the defoliation of affected trees, was 
confined to old needles,, the needles of 19^5 and the terminals of 192b being 
unaffected. 
Tne European beech bark louse, Crypt ococcus £§.gi. Baer,, occurs on beech- 
over the greater part of the mainland of Nova Scotia. It has not yet been 
found in Cape Breton Island or New Brunswick. 
There is a heavy infestation of the larch case-bearer and larch 
sawfly all over New Erunwick .sad on Capo Bretcn Island. The larch sawfly 
was responsible for a 10 per cent defoliation of larches between North Bay_._ 
and Sturgeon Falls, Ontario. 
