Adults eat tiny shot-like holes in leaves (mostly from beneath).

Larvae attack underground parts and transmit plant diseases, e.g., spindle tuber. blight, brown rot, scab and scurf.

Remove weeds (food) and plant debris (hibernation sites);

Repel with small containers of equal parts old soot and agricultural lime;

Sprinkle hardwood ashes on plants 2-3 times/week;

Protect seedbeds with gauze; seed thickly and thin after early-season danger is past;

Apply garlic spray, diatomaceous earth1;

Pass sticky shields2 or boxes over infested plants to catch beetles as they jump;

Spray or dust with rotenone as last resort;

Interplant with cabbage family crops3;

Grow near shade-giving crops (flea beetles don't like shade).

Includes BROCCOLI, BRUSSEL SPROUT, CABBAGE, CAULIFLOWER, KALE, KOHLRABI, MUSTARD, RADISH, RUTABAGA, TURNIP, etc. and related weeds.