Pest on crop
Colorado Potato Beetle on eggplant
Leptinotarsa decemlineata
Yellow-and-black-striped beetle and red-orange humpbacked larvae that defoliate potato and eggplant. Capable of destroying a planting in days during peak feeding.
- Pest
- Colorado Potato Beetle
- Scientific name
- Leptinotarsa decemlineata
- Crop
- Eggplant
- Total hosts
- 3
Colorado Potato Beetle on eggplant
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Signs on eggplant
- ▸ Striped adult beetles on foliage
- ▸ Bright orange-red larvae feeding in groups
- ▸ Yellow-orange egg clusters on leaf undersides
- ▸ Skeletonized foliage
IPM controls
- ✓ Hand-pick adults and crush egg clusters daily during peak
- ✓ Spinosad or Bt (San Diego strain) on small larvae
- ✓ Crop rotation to a non-Solanaceae bed (beetles overwinter in soil)
- ✓ Straw mulch reduces movement between plants
- ✓ Encourage parasitic stink bugs and tachinid flies
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