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Present indications are that the oriental peach moth will cruse 
serious losses in peach orchards of the Niagara peninsula, Ontario, partic- 
ularly in Niagara Township. 
The grr»n apple aohid has "been present in outbreak form in the Ann- 
apolis Valley, Nova Scotia, and the Niagara district, Ontario. It also 
has caused considerable injury particularly to young trees in the Okanagan 
Valley, British Columbia. In addition, the black cherry aphid c-used 
severe injury to sweet cherries in the Niagara district, and the rosy apple 
aphid has been abundant in the eastern Ann-oolis Valley, Nova Scotia. 
Tussock moths are widespread in the Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia, 
and -^re causing considerable damage by gnawing holes in the fruit in apple 
orchards . 
The fall webworm is present in conspicuous numbers in many sections 
of Nova Scotia and Ontario and in the Lower Eraser Valley, British Columbia. 
The ap-ole sucker has been recorded for the first time in the St. 
John River Valley, New Brunswick, outbreaks having been discovered in west- 
ern Kings County. 
The apple and thorn skeletonizer is widespread in the Annapolis 
Valley, Neva Scotia, and has also been found in neglected apple orchards at 
Grimsby and Beamsville in the Niagara district, Ontario. 
The outbreak of the hemlock looper on the North Shore of the St. 
Lawrence, about 50 miles below the mouth of the Manacouagan River, at 
Trinity Bay, Quebec, is extending very rapidly and probably about 1,000,000 
cords of balsam spruce pulpwood are being destroyed. Other outbreaks of 
this species in balsam uulpwood stands are in progress at C-odbout -^nd Pen- 
tecote on the North Shore, and are reported from other valleys along the 
coast of the St. Lawrence River and the Gfulf of St. Lawrence, extending as 
far as Labrador. 
An outbreak of a species tentatively determined as the black-headed 
tip moth ( Feronia variana Fern.) is affecting balsam and spruce over an 
area of 300 square miles in southern Cane Breton Island, Nova Scotia. Sev- 
enty per cent of the trees are infested and severe injury is being done 
during the present season. This is the first year that this species has 
?voe;red in outbreak form. 
A -very extensive outbreak of the jack-pine sa.wf ly (Neodiurion banksjgn? 
Rohwer) • has been reported from the Capreol district of northern Ontario. 
Scouting for the gipsy moth in the -province of Quebec this season 
has failed so far to reveal ^ny evidence of the rest. 
