OUTSTANDING- ENTOMOLOGICAL FEATURES IN CANADA FOR SEPTEMBER, 1925 
The poplar vagabond gall, Mord vi Iko ,ja v° ^bunda , is exceedingly abundant 
in the Prairie Provinces this season. 
The European "bark louse, Cryatococcus fagi B^renspr. , is abundant on dying 
beech trees throughout a considerable portion of central Nova Scotia, and at 
Charlottetovfli, Prince Edward Island. 
The outbreak of spruce budv.'o rm , HarmolOjga funif erana CI en. , in the Thor 
Lake and Thunder Bay districts of Ontario is active again this year. 
The corn ear worm has been responsible for serious losses to growers of 
sv/eet corn throughout the lotfer St.- John River Valley, New BnmsTdck, and at Kent- 
ville and Hiddleton, Nova Scotia. 
Grasshoppers have oeen responsible for considerable injury to crops in the 
Kettle River Valley, in southern Eritish Columbia, especially around Midway and 
Rock Creek. 
The Colorado potato beetle has become firmly established in the southeastern 
corner of British Columbia, all potato fields in the Cranbrook area now being in- 
fested. In Alberta, this insect has been less abundant then for three years past, 
and appears to be on the decrease. 
The rose leafhotrocr is quite abundant in some apple orchards of the Niagara- 
district, Ontario, this season. 
Additional outbreaks of the codling moth in British Columbia have been re- 
ported from Nelson, Penticton.and Salmon Arm. 
The common housefly has been found in the Banff district, Alberta, at an 
altitude of 7,000 feet, many miles from any. habitation. 
Insect injuries to shade trees in the Prairie p rovinces have been much 
less severe this year than usual. 
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