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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. 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. Paris green - Wikipedia

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   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, or Vienna green, Emperor green or Mountain green. It is a highly toxic emerald-green crystalline powder [4] that has been used as a ...

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.

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7. 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 ...