INSECTS, ETC. 



insect, with a rtxldish - tipped body, pale yellow- 

 eyes and limbs, and measuring one - twentieth of 

 an inch in length. It is wonderfully agile in its 

 habits, jumping away directly the leaf it is on is 

 touched. The larvce, small whitish or yellowish mag- 

 gots, are also fairly active, but they cannot jump. Both 

 feed on the surfaces of the leaves and ishoote, sucking out 

 the juices, and causing them to assume a yellowiish tinge 

 and die. 



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TURNIP FLEA BEETLE ^PHYLLOTRETA NEMOlirif). 



Fig. 1, Beetle magnified; 2, Lines to ohow nat. eize; 8 and 9, Larva, nat. 

 size and magnified; 10 and 11, Piipte, nat. eize and magnified; 5, etc., Leaf 

 attacked. 



Remedies. — Sponging, or syringing, or spraying the foli- 

 age with a solution of one of the a-dvertised insecticides are 

 the usual remedies. Fumigation with a nicotine prepara- 

 tion on three successive evenings generally proves suc- 

 cessful. 



Turnip Flea (Phyllotreta nemorum).— The Turnip 

 Fly, or Flea Beetle, is a email beetle about one-eighth of 

 an inch in length, dark in colour, and with two white 

 stripes down its back. It is an active little creature, and 

 springs a good distanc-e when disturbed. The beetles 

 attack the seedlings directly they appear above the ground, 



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