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Blister beetles, which in the grub stage are predacious on grasshopper 
eggs, were reported as unusually destructive to truck crops ir. the South 
Atlantic States, from Virginia westward to Kentucky. In the region heavily 
infested by grasshoppers last year these insects became decided pests to both 
field and garden crops, reports having been received from the two Dakotas, 
Nebraska, Kansas, and Wyoming. 
The false chinch bug was very abundant during the middle of the month in 
the West Central States, reports having been received from Iowa, Nebraska, and 
Kansas. It was also reported from Colorado, Utah, and California. In California 
the outbreak is the worst ever recorded. 
The Mexican bean beetle continues to be seriously abundant throughout its 
entire range. 
Brood XIX of the periodical cicada, the largest of the 13-year broods, 
appeared during late May and early June over the greater part of the territory 
known to be infested. This brood covers the territory from central Illinois 
and northeastern Missouri southward over Arkansas and eastern Oklahoma to the 
northern border of Louisiana and extends eastward across Tennessee and Alabama 
into Georgia and the Carolinas. 
Fall and spring canker worms were generally prevalent from the New England 
States and New York westward to the Lakotas and Nebraska. 
The forest tent caterpillar is abundant throughout the mountainous regions 
from Maine southward to central Virginia. An outbreak of this insect is also 
reported from northeastern Colorado. 
THE MOST IMPORTANT ENTOMOLOGICAL FEATURES IN CANADA FOR JUNE, 1953. 
Over a large part of the Dominion the spring season was cool and late, 
and work on the land and seeding operations were reported more backward than 
in any year since 1928. A report at the end of May stated that throughout the 
West general soil-moisture conditions were better than for several years. 
However, in June there were complaints of shortage of moisture in certain 
areas of the Prairie Provinces and more precipitation would be welcomed, 
particularly in west-central Saskatchewan and in southwestern and central 
Alberta. 
In general, reports from various parts of eastern Canada and British 
Columbia indicate that insect damage to field and fruit crops, so far, is 
comparatively light. In the Prairie Provinces the hatching of grasshoppers 
was general by the first week in June over considerable areas and, as expected, 
an outbreak of serious prouortions was developing. Strenuous efforts to cope 
with this outbreak by means of noisoned baits are being made. 
Cutworms appeared to be less threatening in the Prairie Provinces than 
during the past few years. Local losses due to the pale western cutworm 
occurred in Alberta and at various points in central and east-central 
Saskatchewan, but in both Provinces the outbreak of this species was generally 
less severe than in 1932. Exceptionally few complaints of c I ve 
been made in the Okanagan Valley, British Columbia, but considerable trouble 
