Leptinotarsa decemlineata

Colorado potato beetle

Shiny, striped, and yellow to orange, these beetles defoliate potato plants. Planting 1 to 2 weeks later than usual may be helpful. Smaller problems easily handled with a vacuum cleaner, or pick and destroy adults and larvae by hand. Spined soldier bugs, Podisus maculiventris, are commercially available predators; lures to attract it also exist. Bacillus thuringiensis var. san diego effective, as are some tachinid flies. Spray with neem, pyrethrins, rotenone, if other measures fail.

 

See Also Bt Neem Pyrethrins Rotenone

Related Topics Potato

 
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