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Notes on the Biology of the Tuber Flea Beetle, Epitrix tuberis Gentner (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), in the Interior of British Columbia1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

C. L. Neilson  and
D. G. Finlayson
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The tuber flea beetle, Epitrix tubrnis Gent., has been a pest of potatoes in the Fraser Valley and the lower mainland of British Columbia since 1940 (Glendenning, 1942); However, it was first reported from the interior in 1944, at Keremeos and Princeton and in the southern Okanagan Valley (Buckell, 1944). In 1945 and 1946, the first surveys were made to determine the area involved. The area and the degree of infestation have since increased anti1 it is now a very serious pest in the interior. The area of infestation is bounded by the International Border on the south and the Okanagan Valley on the east and extends northward to Malakwa. From here the line runs west through Adam's Lake to Barriere, to Criss Creek, to Pavillion, thence south to Lillooet, Lytton, Merritt, Princeton, and Hedley.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 85 , Issue 1 , January 1953 , pp. 31 - 32
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1953

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