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2. Colorado potato beetle - Wikipedia

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   A Colorado beetle larva eating a leaf of a potato plant. Colorado potato beetles pose significant dangers to potatoes, which are a quintessential agricultural crop. In response to the damage they do, some potatoes have been genetically modified to resist attack and damage from the beetles. [49] Specifically, the Russet Burbank Potato.

3. Jerusalem cricket - Wikipedia

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   Stenopelmatini. Genera. Ammopelmatus. Stenopelmatus. Jerusalem crickets (or potato bugs) [1] are a group of large, flightless insects in the genera Ammopelmatus and Stenopelmatus, together comprising the tribe Stenopelmatini. The former genus is native to the western United States and parts of Mexico, while the latter genus is from Central America.

4. Ammopelmatus - Wikipedia

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   Stenopelmatini. Genus: Ammopelmatus. Tinkham, 1965. Synonyms. Viscainopelmatus Tinkham, 1970. Ammopelmatus [notes 1] is a genus of insects in the family Stenopelmatidae, one of two genera of large, flightless insects referred to commonly as Jerusalem crickets (or "potato bugs"). They are native to western United States and northwestern Mexico.

5. Stenopelmatus - Wikipedia

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   Tribe: Stenopelmatini. Genus: Stenopelmatus. Burmeister, 1838. Synonyms. Stenopelmatopterus Gorochov, 1988. Stenopelmatus[notes 1] is one of two genera of large, flightless insects referred to commonly as Jerusalem crickets (or "potato bugs"). They are primarily native to Central America, and one species is known from Ecuador.

6. Armadillidium vulgare - Wikipedia

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   Armadillidium vulgare, the common pill-bug, potato bug, common pill woodlouse, roly-poly, slater, doodle bug, or carpenter, is a widespread European species of woodlouse. It is the most extensively investigated terrestrial isopod species. [2] It is native to Mediterranean Europe, but as an introduced species they have become naturalized in ...

7. War against the potato beetle - Wikipedia

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   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 has been one of the most destructive pests of the cultivated potato.