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2. Colorado potato beetle - Wikipedia

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   Colorado potato beetle. The Colorado potato beetle (Leptinotarsa decemlineata; also known as the Colorado beetle, the ten-striped spearman, the ten-lined potato beetle, and the potato bug) is a beetle known for being a major pest of potato crops. It is about 10 mm (3⁄8 in) long, with a bright yellow/orange body and five bold brown stripes ...

3. War against the potato beetle - Wikipedia

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   The war against the potato beetle was a campaign launched in Warsaw Pact countries during the Cold War to eradicate the Colorado potato beetle (Leptinotarsa decemlineata). It was also a propaganda operation that alleged it was introduced into East Germany, the People's Republic of Poland and Communist Czechoslovakia by the United States as a ...

4. Pesticide resistance - Wikipedia

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   The Colorado potato beetle has evolved resistance to 52 different compounds belonging to all major insecticide classes. Resistance levels vary across populations and between beetle life stages, but in some cases can be very high (up to 2,000-fold). [21]

5. Beauveria bassiana - Wikipedia

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   Beauveria bassiana is a fungus that grows naturally in soils throughout the world and acts as a parasite on various arthropod species, causing white muscardine disease; it thus belongs to the group of entomopathogenic fungi. It is used as a biological insecticide to control a number of pests, including termites, thrips, whiteflies, aphids and ...

6. Entomological warfare - Wikipedia

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   "The Colorado Potato Beetle Goes to War", Chemical Weapons Convention Bulletin, Issue #33, September 1996, accessed January 3, 2009. Hay, Alastair. "A Magic Sword or A Big Itch: An Historical Look at the United States Biological Weapon Programme", ( Citation ), Medicine, Conflict and Survival , Vol. 15 July–September 1999, pp. 215–234).

7. Paris green - Wikipedia

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   Paris green. Paris green (copper (II) acetate triarsenite or copper (II) acetoarsenite) is an arsenic -based organic pigment. As a green pigment it is also known as Mitis green, Schweinfurt green, Sattler green, emerald, Vienna green, Emperor green or Mountain green. It is a highly toxic emerald-green crystalline powder [4] that has been used ...