is over a ragfion " where the growing of garden peas is rather extensive • 
Here the association of alfalfa and peaa is s-argested is being favorable 
for the multiplication of this insect* Aphid infestations were so 
serious in the Santa Clara Valley on spinach that seven canneries ceased 
canning this product this spring* The damage was net so much the 
infestation of the aphids as the presence of such enormous numbers of 
syrphid larvae that Iz was not possible to remove them from the spinach 
in the washing process* 
Bruce 1 s measuring worm is reported for the first time as being 
present in the Okanogan Valley of Washington State* 
OUTSTANDING ENTOMOLOGICAL FEATURES IN CANADA FOE APRIL f 1923. 
The spring in Canada is backward in most parts of the Dominion , 
with the exception cf British Columbia, where the season is from two to 
three weeks in advance of last year. In parts of the Prairie Provinces 
it is expected that the farmers will be able to do very little work in the 
fields until about the first of May. In Quebec and the Maritime Provinces 
the spring is about two weeks later then l<*st year. Unusually cold weather 
with much snow was experienced in Ontario during the first two weeks of 
April, but towards the end of the month a wans spell occurred and spring 
plooghing will be general by the first of May 
The pea weevil has shown an increase in numbers in certain sections 
of Ontario, during the past two years- In British Columbia this insect 
is reported from several sactions whrhh were previously uninfested. The 
latest report is from Lillooet, B* C», where there is a serious infestation 
of this insect* 
The striped cucumber beetle is becoming more prevalent in the 
Prairie Provinces* In Manitoba in 1922 it was common throughout the 
southern sections from Melite to Winnipeg* 
The roadside grasshopper, Camnula pellucida Sculler, outbreak which 
occurred over an area of 3000 square miles of cattle range in the neighbor- 
hood of the Nicola Valley, B. C* , in 1922, and which was probably the worst 
outbreak in the history of the province, is 3xpectedto re-occur this year 
over the same area but in a very mild form. It is feared, however, that 
some of the largest dry-farming sections will suffer severely. 
The sugar-beet root aphid, Pemphi.-rus betae Doane, is judged by 
conditions as becoming increasingly prevalent on mangels in the Lower 
Eraser Valley, Fritish Columbia* 
The western wheat- stem sawfly, Cenhus cir.ctus. Nort* is overwintering 
in large numbers in the Prairie Provinces* Indications point to severe 
damage during the coming year. 
The Colorado potato beetle has experienced favorable winter 
donditions in the Prairie Provinces and everywhere is expected to emerge 
from its winter quarters the last two weeks of May* 
