Re: HELP!!!!!!

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• Subject: Re: HELP!!!!!!
• From: R* C* I* <r*@UVI.EDU>
• Date: Wed, 2 Apr 1997 23:16:36 -0400

At 04:28 PM 4/2/97 EST, you wrote:
>...It looks like
>someone is eating out little holes in the leaves of our spinach, peppers,
>potatoes, and nasturtiums, and like someone else (or maybe the same
>creature) is taking  a pair of scissors and cutting squares out of the
>edges of the lettuce leaves.
>...
>Also, we looked in an Ortho book of gardening and pests and think it kind
>of resembles the flea beetle.  Has anyone any experience with this pest?

Just some help with identification--except for the squares out of the edges
of the lettuce leaves, your description does sound like the flea beetle. I
did have flea beetles once, but i don't remember that i did anything about it.

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|  Cousin Ricky      USDA zone 11     |
|  rcallwo@uvi.edu   formerly zone 6  |
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