After a day of mowing and weed eating the yard I took a walk out to the garden to add some goodies to the compost bin. As I looked over each raised bed and the wonderful growth I was horrified to see that some pest had invaded the leaves of my potatoes. Each and every one of the leaves were laden with tiny holes everywhere.

The tiny black dot at the top is the beetle and the spots are all the holes.

Upon further research (calling a friend and googleing “holes on potato leaves”), I found that what I had was an infestation of Flea Beetles. Not only that, most of them were looking like they were humping each other and getting ready to lay eggs.  OH NO!!!!!

According eSSORTMENT these beetles are a common pest for the home gardener…….

“Potato flea beetles are shiny black beetles which jump in the same manner as fleas, but are completely unrelated to what we commonly think of as fleas. Both adult and mature potato flea beetles can be of extensive damage and harm to the potato plants in your vegetable garden at various stages of their development. Potato flea beetles ar