Insect pests of farm, garden and orchard . Fig. 308.—The sweet-potato flea-beetle (Choetocnema confinis Lee): adultand larva—much enlarged. (After J. B. Smith.) killed outright, turn brown, and decay, while new leaves putout from below, thus checking the growth. These attacks havebeen found to be worst on low land and that previously in sweetpotatoes, and are always first noticed near fence rows or woodlandwhere the beetles have hibernated. The beetle is bronzed or *See Sanderson, Bulletin 59, Md. Agr. Exp. Sta.; J. B. Smith, Bulletin229, N. J. Agr. Exp. Sta. t Choetocnema confinis Lee. Family
Insect pests of farm, garden and orchard . Fig. 308.—The sweet-potato flea-beetle (Choetocnema confinis Lee): adultand larva—much enlarged. (After J. B. Smith.) killed outright, turn brown, and decay, while new leaves putout from below, thus checking the growth. These attacks havebeen found to be worst on low land and that previously in sweetpotatoes, and are always first noticed near fence rows or woodlandwhere the beetles have hibernated. The beetle is bronzed or *See Sanderson, Bulletin 59, Md. Agr. Exp. Sta.; J. B. Smith, Bulletin229, N. J. Agr. Exp. Sta. t Choetocnema confinis Lee. Family Chriisomelidoe. See Smith, 1. c., p. 4. 430 INSECTS INJURIOUS TO THE SWEET POTATO 431 brassy-brown, about one-sixteenth inch long, thick set, and thewing-covers when seen under a lens are deeply striated. Life History.—The beetles hibernate over winter in rubbish,under logs, leaves or other vegetation, and emerge early in mate as soon as they have fed a little, and disappear by themiddle of June in New Jersey. But little i
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