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Re: flea beetles? Mexican bean beetles??

This isn't much immediate help, but you can plan for next season.  Several
organic growers use trap crops for flea and bean beetles.  They plant a
stand of beans away from the main garden in poor soil.  The beans grow and
attract pests like crazy, leaving the main crop in the garden alone.  A few
beans can even be harvested from the trap crop.  Insects are drawn to ailing
plants--they give off certain gases that are attractive to chewing and
sucking insects.  So, it makes perfect sense to plant a trap crop in poor
soil.  That's my plan for 1999.
Doreen Howard
Zone 5 in Springfield, IL, 6 weeks out of Zone 9b in hot, hot Texas.

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