flea beetle

Examples

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• "We now need to find ways to get these flea beetles, in combination with other insects, distributed and established over a much larger area so we can control leafy spurge."

  Academic text (1994)

• The stars so far have been a group of four related flea beetles from Eurasia that belong to the genus Aphthona.

  Academic text (2000)

• I do have a little bit of this is just a flea beetle and flea beetles look like that, that thing that just jumped.

• The adults of these flea beetles eat leaves and flowers, and the larvae feed on the root hairs and young roots.

  Academic text (1994)

• Unlike flea beetles, the midge prefers moist, shady areas.

  Academic text (2000)

• Aphthona flava flea beetle feeding on leafy spurge.

  Academic text (2000)

• Last summer, TEAM Leafy Spurge distributed for release more than 22 million flea beetles to 206 ranchers and land managers from 50 counties in 7 states.

  Academic text (2000)

• Now the black dot spurge flea beetle, a close relative provided by Agriculture Canada in 1989, is being pilot-tested at six sites in five states: Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nebraska, and North Dakota.

  Academic text (1994)

• The garden was infested with flea beetles that made the leaves look like Swiss cheese.

• Farmers often use row covers to protect young plants from flea beetle infestations.

Synonyms

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leaf beetle

vsflea beetle

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A small brightly colored beetle that eats plant leaves and whose young damage roots and stems

is small and has enlarged hind legs used for strong jumping

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Etymology