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  2. Colorado potato beetle - Wikipedia

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    The Colorado potato beetle ( Leptinotarsa decemlineata) is also known as the Colorado beetle, the ten-striped spearman, the ten-lined potato beetle, or the potato bug. It is a major pest of potato crops. It is about 10 mm ( in) long, with a bright yellow/orange body and five bold brown stripes along the length of each of its elytra.

  3. Lebia grandis - Wikipedia

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    The original host plant of the Colorado potato beetle, Leptinotarsa decemlineata was the buffalo bur, Solanum rostratum, in Mexico. No association has been found between Lebia grandis and Leptinotarsa 'decemlineata on this host plant. In the 1850s, Leptinotarsa decemlineata began to feed on the potato plant and spread rapidly eastwards on ...

  4. False potato beetle - Wikipedia

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    The false potato beetle ( Leptinotarsa juncta) is a beetle found primarily in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern United States. Its distribution extends to Maine. Adult beetles emerge from the soil in the late spring or early summer and begin breeding, and a population may go through one to three generations in a summer.

  5. War against the potato beetle - Wikipedia

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    The beetle Native ranges of the Colorado beetle and the potato. The Colorado potato beetle, also known as the "ten striped spearman", is a common pest of potato crops. It is most likely native to the area between Colorado and northern Mexico, and was discovered in 1824 by Thomas Say in the Rocky Mountains. Since the mid-nineteenth century, it ...

  6. Chrysomeloidea - Wikipedia

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    The spotted cucumber beetle is a serious pest of vegetables and is a very common insect on all sorts of flowers. The Colorado potato beetle, Leptinotarsa decemlineata, attacks potatoes and other members of the Solanaceae. The Asian long-horned beetle is a serious pest of trees where it has been introduced. [citation needed]. It seems almost ...

  7. Entomological warfare - Wikipedia

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    The Colorado potato beetle was considered as an EW weapon by nations on both sides of WWII France. France is known to have pursued entomological warfare programs during World War II. Like Germany, the nation suggested that the Colorado potato beetle, aimed at the enemy's food sources, would be an asset during the war.

  8. Lema daturaphila - Wikipedia

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    Lema trilineata ( Olivier, 1808) Crioceris trilineata Olivier, 1808. Lema trivittata Say 1824. Lema daturaphila, commonly known as the three-lined potato beetle, is a species of beetle in the family Chrysomelidae. It is originally from Central and North America, but has spread elsewhere.

  9. Spined soldier bug - Wikipedia

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    Spined soldier bug. The spined soldier bug ( Podisus maculiventris) is a species of stink bug common in North America. They are predators of gypsy moth caterpillars and the larvae of beetles such as the Colorado potato beetle and the Mexican bean beetle. Since the Mexican bean beetle is widely regarded as a notorious agricultural pest in North ...