Download or read book The Beet Leafhopper (Classic Reprint) written by James Robert Douglass and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-09 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Beet Leafhopper The beet leafhopper is a serious menace to sugar beet, bean, tomato, and other crops in the West, not because of direct damage by feeding, but because it transmits curly top disease. It is the only known carrier of this disease, which attacks many important agricultural crops, ornamental plants, and weeds. A sun-loving, dry-land insect, the leafhopper breeds in vast areas of weeds that have grown up on abandoned farmlands and deteriorated range. The misuse of land and the appearance of new weeds have created large tracts in the West which serve as breeding grounds for the leafhopper and as reservoirs of the curly top virus. When the weed hosts mature and dry, the nymphs die, and the adults that have not already moved are forced to find new food plants. They often travel long distances with the help of the wind. Generally, however, the movement is from the desert or rangeland to adjacent cultivated areas. In the course of these movements cultivated crops are infected with curly top (fig. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.