红薯小象鼻虫在我省湘南一带是红薯的重要害虫之一。临武等地群众称它“樟木虫”、“臭心虫”,它在田间和窑藏期都可为害红薯,被害薯块变黑、腐烂、发臭,以致不能食用。每年对红薯产量的损失很大,群众痛心地说:“辛辛苦苦挖回一担,削来削去只够一餐”。由于它可随种薯传播,列为国内国际植物检疫对象。我们今年到临武县开门办学,向贫下中农和革命技术干部学习,了解到他们在毛主席 Sweet potato small weevils in southern Hunan Province is one of the important pests of sweet potato. The people in Linwu and other places call it “camphor woodworm” and “heartworm”. They can harm sweet potatoes in the field and during the kiln-to-potting period. The potatoes become black, rotten and smelly, so they can not be eaten. Every year the loss of sweet potato production is very large, the masses sadly said: “hard to dig back a burden, cut to cut enough to eat only one meal.” As it can be spread with the seed, as domestic and international phytosanitary objects. We opened our doors to Linwu County this year to learn from the poor and poor middle peasants and revolutionary technical cadres and learned that they are working under Chairman Mao