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The cotton worm is generally extremely prevalent over the entire cotton belt, 
eastward to Alabama. 
In this number is an interesting report from Porto F.ico of a very serious 
infestation of sugarcane by the sugarcane leaf scale. 
In the Cape Cod section of Massachusetts the el:.: leaf beetle is seriously 
browning the trees and in Fresno County, California, the pest is completely defoli- 
ating all untreated trees. 
•The locust leaf miner seems to be generally abundant over the entire eastern 
part of the United States. 
The European earwig colony in East Aurora , New York, is apparently spreading. 
OUTSTANDING- ENTOMOLOGICAL FEATURES IU C-UAPA FOP AUGUST, 1925 
The grasshopper situation in British Columbia is serious and severe outbreaks 
are anticipated in 1925. From 100 Mile House to Quesnel the roadside grasshopper, 
Cannula pellucida (Scudder), is extremely abundant, and from Chilcotin to Vernon, 
grasshopper outbreaks are either in progress or are expected to develop next summer. 
The western wheat-stem sawfly is proving of considerable economic importance 
in the Province of Saskatchewan this year. 
The European red mite occurred in outbreak form in the Niagara district and 
southwestern Ontario this sunnier and caused serious injury to the foliage of European 
plums and apples. 
The mite. Tetranychus telarius .Linn, has become very numerous on hops at 
Sardis, British Columbia, due to the hot diy weather. - ■ 
The Hessian fly has been found present over practically the whole of the 
Eraser River Valley, New Brunswick, from Fredericton to Grand Falls. It was also 
noted at West Devon, Prince Edward Island. The infestations ~"ere light, varying 
from one to three per cent. 
The western lined June beetle, Polyuhylla d ecsaliner.ta (Say), is occurring 
in serious outbreak form near Salmon Arm, British Columbia, attacking vegetable's 
and small fruits. 
An additional outbreak of the codling moth in British Columbia is reported 
from Okanagan Centre. 
The fruit-tree leaf-roller has been of very minor importance this season in 
the Niagara district, Ontario, even' in orchards usually subject to severe attack. 
Cutworms are rerorted as troublesome on truck crops in the Eraser River Valley, 
British Columbia. 
