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2. Colorado potato beetle - Wikipedia

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   Synonyms [ 2 ] Doryphora decemlineataSay, 1824. Stilodes decemlineata. 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.

3. 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.

4. Bacillus thuringiensis - Wikipedia

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   [27] [28] A specific example of B. thuringiensis use against beetles is the fight against Colorado Potato Beetles in potato crops. Thus, B. thuringiensis serves as an important reservoir of Cry toxins for production of biological insecticides and insect-resistant genetically modified crops.

5. War against the potato beetle - Wikipedia

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   Colorado beetle. 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 ...

6. Pesticide resistance - Wikipedia

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   Pesticide resistance is increasing. Farmers in the US lost 7% of their crops to pests in the 1940s; over the 1980s and 1990s, the loss was 13%, even though more pesticides were being used. [1] Over 500 species of pests have evolved a resistance to a pesticide. [4] Other sources estimate the number to be around 1,000 species since 1945.

7. Let's Grow: Beating the invasion of Japanese beetles - AOL

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   The beetles may be killed by dropping them into a bucket of soapy water. Hand collecting can be used to protect valuable plants when beetle activity is relatively low. Japanese beetles always drop ...