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Colorado potato beetle

Affects: Potato Eggplant

Colorado potato beetle - photo 1
Photo: Scott Bauer, USDA (public domain)
Colorado potato beetle - photo 2
Photo: Tavo Romann, CC BY 4.0 / Wikimedia Commons
Colorado potato beetle - photo 3
Photo: Adámozphoto, CC BY-SA 4.0 / Wikimedia Commons
Colorado potato beetle - photo 4
Photo: Bernard Dupont, CC BY-SA 2.0 / Wikimedia Commons

Symptoms

Rounded yellow-and-black striped beetles and fat orange grubs stripping leaves; clusters of orange eggs under leaves.

When it shows up

Late spring into summer with two generations in most regions.

Jun Jul

Treatment

Hand-pick adults and crush egg clusters; spinosad knocks down the larvae.

Prevention

Rotate nightshades far from last year, mulch deep with straw, and cover early growth.

What you need

The same products HomesteadSync recommends in the app for this problem.

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