Damage by Larvae of the Tobacco Flea Beetle to Tomato Seedlings13
- 1 February 1968
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of Economic Entomology
- Vol. 61 (1) , 152-154
- https://doi.org/10.1093/jee/61.1.152
Abstract
All stages of larvae of the tobacco flea beetle, Epitrix hirtipennis (Melsheimer), tunneled into the roots and the hypocotyl of tomato seedlings up to the area of the cotyledons in greenhouse tests at Beltsville, Maryland. The hollowed hypocotyls collapsed, and the plants became prostrate. These symptoms are strikingly similar to “damping off”; thus, where direct seeding of tomatoes is practiced, larval damage might be erroneously ascribed to infection by species of Rhizoctonia, Pythium, or other soil-borne fungi.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- Conditions Involved in the Severe Losses of Newly Set Tobacco in North Carolina, 1937Journal of Economic Entomology, 1938