The Bulletin. 



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Tobacco Flea Beetle. 1 



Also Known as "Tobacco Flea Bug," "Flea Bug." 

 (Order Coleoptera.) 



General Description. — A small, active beetle, which eats circular 

 holes from about the size of a pinhead to a quarter of au inch in 

 diameter through the leaves of the tobacco plant. The first leaves 



Fig. 10.— Lower leaf of Tobacco Plant which has been riddled by Tobacco Flea Beetle, 



reduced. 

 (Photograph by the author.) 



(Fig. 16) suffer more in this respect than the later ones, but in severe 

 cases the beetle spreads throughout the whole plant, injuring every 

 leaf to such an extent that they are unfit for the better grades of 

 tobacco. (Fig. 17.) This is the worst tobacco pest that the farmer 

 has to fight. It is one against which spraying will give the most 

 pronounced results, as we have no other entirely efficient method 

 for keeping it in control. 



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