Elementary entomology ([c1912]) Elementary entomology elementaryentomo00sand Year: [c1912] 111 . remarkable jumps, are known as flea- beetles. The potato flea-beetle (Epitrix fnscnla] and nearly related species are com- monly abundant on young potato and tomato plants, and on egg- plants, the leaves of which are riddled as if they had been hit with fine bird shot. The larvae are small, slender white grubs, which feed on the roots of various weeds of the same botanical family, and are rarely seen. All the garden 1 r^vvL \\£ '$FJ crops, as well as tobacco and corn, T»»H \ / i are attacked by on
Elementary entomology ([c1912]) Elementary entomology elementaryentomo00sand Year: [c1912] 111 . remarkable jumps, are known as flea- beetles. The potato flea-beetle (Epitrix fnscnla] and nearly related species are com- monly abundant on young potato and tomato plants, and on egg- plants, the leaves of which are riddled as if they had been hit with fine bird shot. The larvae are small, slender white grubs, which feed on the roots of various weeds of the same botanical family, and are rarely seen. All the garden 1 r^vvL \\£ '$FJ crops, as well as tobacco and corn, T»»H \ / i are attacked by one or more spe- cies of these flea-beetles. The lar- vae of a few species of this family FIG. 225. Striped turnip flea-beetle are ]eaf miners, the leaves of the (Greatly enlarged) . , , locust being commonly anectea by , adult. (From Riley, United . . .. ... . , States Department of Agriculture) large, brown, bllSterllke mmCS due
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