a4 CIRCULAR 639, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
The tobacco thrips causes injury to cigar-wrapper tobacco during 
abnormally dry growing seasons. No entirely satisfactory control 
remedy is available for this insect. 
Other species of insects causing minor injuries to cigar tobacco 
in the region include the southern green stinkbug, wireworms, the 
suckfly, climbing cutworms, the garden flea hopper, and the tobacco 
splitworm. | 
Insects occasionally found feeding on tobacco have received brief 
mention. 
