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  2. Colorado potato beetle - Wikipedia

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    Colorado potato beetles are highly mobile and are considered pests. Colorado potato beetles disperse to hosts via walking and flight. Flights have three types: short, long, and diapause. Diapause is a long-distance flight that occurs at the end of the summer.

  3. 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 ...

  4. Henosepilachna vigintioctomaculata - Wikipedia

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    Henosepilachna vigintioctomaculata. ( Motschulsky, 1857) Synonyms. Epilachna vigintioctomaculata. Henosepilachna vigintioctomaculata is a species of beetle in the family Coccinellidae. It is commonly known as the 28-spotted potato ladybird, [1] a name also used for the closely related species, Henosepilachna vigintioctopunctata. [2]

  5. 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.

  6. List of pest-repelling plants - Wikipedia

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    Peppermint. repels aphids, cabbage looper, flea beetles, squash bugs, whiteflies, and the Small White [3] Petunias. repel aphids, tomato hornworm, asparagus beetles, leafhoppers, [2] and squash bugs [3] Pitcher plants. traps and ingests insects. Radish. repels cabbage maggot and cucumber beetles [3] Rosemary.

  7. 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. 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 ...

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