There is another species of flea-beetle that frequently injures 
vegetables — especially cabbages, turnips, radishes and other 
related plants. It is commonly called the Striped Flea-beetle*. 
It is represented magnified at Fig. 3, 6, and is a small, shining 
black beetle, one-tenth of an inch long, with a broad, yellow, 
wavy, longitudinal stripe on each wing-covei;. It feeds upon 
the surface of the leaf, gnawing 
out little pits. The females de- 
posit their minute, oval, whitish 
eggs upon the roots of various 
cruciferous plants, such as radish, 
cabbage, turnip, etc., and the 
larva? which hatch from tiiem feed 
upon these roots, sometimes doing 
serious damage in this way. The 
full-grown larva (Fig- 2, a) is 
, . j< ii i! " • 1 1 Fiff. -2. Wavv-striped Flea-beetle : 
about one-fourth of an inch long, a.lawa; 6," beetle. Wagnifleir 
with a yellowish-white body and 
brown head. There appear to be two or more broods each 
season. 
REMEDIES 
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A large number of substances have been recommended as 
preventives of flea-beetle attack, success in the use of any of 
which depends, to a great extent, upon the comparative abun- 
dance of tlie insects. Our own experiments indicate that the 
pests may be driven off from garden vegetables, in early Spring, 
by the liberal application of simple repellant and deterrent 
substances like plaster, air-slaked lime, soot, and especially 
tobacco powder, dusted on when the plants are wet with dew. 
I obtained more satisfactory results, however, b}' the use of 
a spray of lime wash made by adding a pint or more of freshly 
slaked lime to two gallons of water, and then thoroughly mix- 
ing in about half a teaspoonful of Paris green. I sprayed this 
upon a variety of garden crops with excellent results. The 
lime dries on in a firmer coating than when simply dusted ou, 
and consequently is more effective. 
A still more certain remedy is found in the use of the Bor- 
* Phyllotreta vittata. 
