Whoa! The tomato leaves are looking not so good. Brownish spots and shot holes. Must be quite a good sized insect to be causing all of this damage. On the first couple of looks I missed the bug doing this damage.
This is the critter responsible for all that! The insect is hard to see...looks like a small black fleck on the leaf and can hop from one leaf to another before you can get your eyes focused. It is a flea beetle and a major nuisance. Last year I didn't have any on my tomatoes, but I had shiny green ones on my oenothera. This must be a cousin to the green ones because it is shiny black. Their large hind legs enable them to jump so they are hard to capture...it does make for a good eye hand coordination task though. The horticulture agent here says she removes hers by using a small dustbuster but that is a little weird. I already have the neighbors in an uproar over my compost bin. If I start vacuuming the plants they will send out the guys with the white jackets! Mom
Whoa! The tomato leaves are looking not so good. Brownish spots and shot holes. Must be quite a good sized insect to be causing all of this damage. On the first couple of looks I missed the bug doing this damage.
This is the critter responsible for all that! The insect is hard to see...looks like a small black fleck on the leaf and can hop from one leaf to another before you can get your eyes focused. It is a flea beetle and a major nuisance. Last year I didn't have any on my tomatoes, but I had shiny green ones on my oenothera. This must be a cousin to the green ones because it is shiny black. Their large hind legs enable them to jump so they are hard to capture...it does make for a good eye hand coordination task though. The horticulture agent here says she removes hers by using a small dustbuster but that is a little weird. I already have the neighbors in an uproar over my compost bin. If I start vacuuming the plants they will send out the guys with the white jackets! Mom
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