46 Bulletin N0. 125. A '
. THE PALE-STRIPED FLEA-Bnnrnn (System; bZanda)‘.—One of  , i
. _ _ _  the causes of clover failure became ap- Yj 
A Y I H `   Klwn _ parent in the spring; of 1905, when it  
·     . was learned that some experimental `  
  . fi _ plantings on the place of Mr. J. B.  
    _ Walker, of Christian County, had been  
~   I   . ` . largely eaten up by a small beetle, if 
~ _ _ /.., j I       ` which proved ·to be`¥this‘ species. The  i
__   'V.`-   ` following was written by meiwith ref-  _;
‘     I erence to the occurrence and published  "
V   `iii J v_ June 8] -  
4 Fig.  ._Pa1€_StI_iP€ -F1€a— This spring some experimental  
beetle plantings of clover were made in 1. 
Christian County, on the farm of Mr.  i-
V J. B. Walker. The clover came up well and appeared in a fair way  j
to give excellent results., But after an absence of several weeks  {
from home, Mr. Walker wrote me, May 17th, that_he found on his  
return that the clover had been largely eaten up by_a small striped  
beetle. . p · ‘ ’ _  E
I visited the place May 22nd, and went over the twenty acres  
that had been planted. At one end some plants were present with  f
some beetles still at work on them. Elsewhere on the land only an  
occasional plant could be found, and these were badly gnawed and  =
blackened. Of the majority of the plants no trace could be seen,  is
from which circumstance it was evident that the work had been  
. going on for some time. _  
The beetle doing the mischief is well enough known from its  
attacks upon other cultivated plants. At one time or another it has  
been observed in the Eastern United States, injuring beans, carrots,  
clover, cotton, corn, potatoes, cabbage, melons, strawberries, black-  
berries, and numerous weeds, among them, purslane, cocklebur,  
l plantain, ragweed, pigweed and lan1b’s quarters.  —
At times it has done severe and extensive injury to corn, cotton,  J?
carrots, beans and tomatoes. In Georgia, cotton following oats `V 
stubble has been destroyed completely by the beetle; In Christian " 
County the injury was on wheat land, and the growth of ragweed  
following the wheat no doubt furnished just the breeding ground yl