TURNIP FLY. 
AND 
METHODS OF PREVENTION AND REMEDY. 
The following Lecture on the Turnip Fly, or Flea 
Beetle, and the methods of treatment and cultivation 
which have been found serviceable in keeping it in 
check, was delivered before the Students of the Royal 
Agricultural College, Cirencester, on Thursday, June 
15th, by Miss Eleanor Ormerod. 
Amongst the various kinds of Insects which are more 
or less present every year on our crops, there are a few 
which especially call for attention from the fact of their 
being seldom absent, and very often present in such 
numbers as to cause severe loss. 
One of the most injurious amongst these is the Turnip 
Flea-beetle, commonly known as Turnip Fly; and its 
habits, and the methods of cultivation by which it may 
be kept in check, are well worth consideration, as showing 
how knowledge of the habits of each insect, and the 
requirement of the crop on which it feeds, may be brought 
to bear together so practically in the matter of prevention 
of attack as to he very serviceable. 
The history of the Turnip Fly is also a good example 
