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Scattered reports and observations indicate that Say's stink bug is 
becoming distributed over southern Alberta. It was first found in the Chin 
area, in the spring of 1335 • Its hosts are wheat and mustard. 
There is a heavy infestation of chinch bugs affecting lawns and 
meadow grasses in Halifax and Yarmouth Counties, Nova Scotia, and probably 
generally throughout the Province. Many lawns and gra.ss plots have been 
almost completely destroyed. 
Increased abundance of gladiolus thrips as compared with 193^ ^ s re ~ 
ported to be general in Ontario. 
Many complaints regarding the European earwig have been made in the 
Pacific coast area of British Columbia and on Vancouver Island. The para- 
site Digonichaeta setipennis Pall, has become established in certain lo- 
calities. 
A marked reduction in the numbers of the gray-banded leaf roller has 
occurred in the Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia, probably largely owing to 
natural control factors. 
Injur:' - D Z r the codling moth in the Niagara district, Ontario, is 
much less severe than in 193^» 
The oriental fruit moth is much less abundant in the Niagara district 
than last year. 
The blunt-nosed leafhopper was found to be present in all wild cran- 
berry bogs south of Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia. This insect is a carrier 
of false blossom disease of cranberries. 
The European spruce sawfly has been found in Cumberland and Pictou 
Counties, Nova Scotia. In Quebec the species has been found generally dis- 
tributed between the St. Lawrence and Saguenay Hivers, and at localities 
extending to the western boundary of the Province. It is also doubtfully 
recorded at Oba, in northern Ontario. 
Larvae of the black-headed budworm were more numerous than last year, 
on fir and spruce, in the Maritime Provinces and the Gaspe Peninsula, 
Quebec. 
A severe infestation of the white-marked tussock moth was reported 
in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. 
Trees continue to die throughout Nova Scotia as a result of injury by the 
balsam woolly aphid, and the total loss in mature sta,nds is considered 
probably about ^0 percent. Many large stands have been practically de- 
stroyed. 
