Information and discussion regarding garden diseases, insects and other unwelcome critters.
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Mar 2015
Location: Ann Arbor Michigan
Posts: 93
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After searching for an answer & not finding it, I thought I would ask you folks.
Maybe a variety of Mexican bean beetle? The gardener says she found it munching on a eggplant fruit. |
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Saylorsburg, PA
Posts: 261
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Offspring of the Colorado Potato beetle. Love eggplants! I smoosh then or you can scrape them into a cup and dispose. Very destructive so check daily.
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2016
Location: Southeastern PA
Posts: 1,420
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Yes, Colorado Potato Beetle larva. Interestingly they are the gray/purple color when on eggplant and orange when on potato plants.
No need to spray, just hand pick and squish them and look for eggs under the leaves and squish them too. |
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: Ontario
Posts: 3,893
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Ha! My first instinct was to say Colorado Beetle, then I realized that it is the wrong colour! Thanks Brownrexx for explaining. Mine seem to prefer potatoes and are orange. BTW the eggs are bright orange too - at least on the underside of potato leaves.
Linda |
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2018
Location: Augusta area, Georgia, 8a/7b
Posts: 1,685
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A good site about the CPB. Down near the bottom they talk about creating a plastic lined trench along the potato rows to trap the critters. I read about that somewhere last year and I think I'll try it this coming spring. They overwinter in the ground and when they emerge they slowly head for the potato plants, fall in the trench and can't get out.
http://labs.russell.wisc.edu/vegento...potato-beetle/ |
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Mar 2015
Location: Ann Arbor Michigan
Posts: 93
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Thanks everyone for all your help.
Trapping them in a plastic lined trench sounds interesting. |
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