On Thu, 01 Sep 2005 20:00:41 GMT, "Daniel B. Martin"
wrote:

Kira Dirlik wrote:
They are just devouring the eggplant leaves.

Please describe the pattern of "devouring." Do they nibble at the leaf
edges? Make tiny holes all over the leaf? Make curvy channels from
the edge to the center? Eat everything except the veins, leaving a
leaf "skeleton?"

Daniel B. Martin

They are cleanly eating from the edge of the leaf inward until the
leaf is totally gone. Nothing messy, very clean (except their poops
on the leaves below.) (Flea beetles they are NOT.)
As for Wes' question, the 3 stripes down the back are vague, middle
one being the strongest, but the row of black spots is definite and
prominent. They look like little old fashioned volkswagons.