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Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: jlb664 on June 03, 2009, 21:01

Title: colorado potato beetle
Post by: jlb664 on June 03, 2009, 21:01

ooh eerrr - my daughter and i were at our allotment today and i am loathe to say i think we have found some colorado potato beetle larvae on our neighbours allotment - have emailed DEFRA - it is defininitely NOT the false potato beetle larvae - have looked on the internet..

Title: Re: colorado potato beetle
Post by: Ice on June 03, 2009, 21:04

Please keep us informed on this.

Title: Re: colorado potato beetle
Post by: sunshineband on June 03, 2009, 21:06

Were they like this?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_potato_beetle#Life_cycle

Very interested to know  :ohmy:

Title: Re: colorado potato beetle
Post by: Babstreefern on June 03, 2009, 22:48

I was in Germany on holiday (in the Black Forest region), when I was out walking to the local village and I passed a house with a garden and they had potatoes growing and one look at the leaves and you could tell there was colorado beetle, you can't miss them.

Title: Re: colorado potato beetle
Post by: joyfull on June 05, 2009, 12:50

Any news from defra jlb664?

Title: Re: colorado potato beetle
Post by: DD. on June 18, 2009, 07:05

Don't you just love being kept in suspense?

Hopefully the good folk of Buckinghamshire would have heard if they'd got something to worry about.

Title: Re: colorado potato beetle
Post by: savbo on June 18, 2009, 07:53

apparently in the 1940s my uncle Toby and my dad were in a police station and saw a poster about colorado beetle with a magnified picture so the beetle was about a foot long - and Toby wondered how anyone could miss something that big....
:)

M

Title: Re: colorado potato beetle
Post by: Salmo on June 18, 2009, 10:01

Ladybird lavae are sometimes mistaken for colarado.

Type ladybird lavae and colarado beelte lavae into google images to compare

Title: Re: colorado potato beetle
Post by: Harry Flashman VC on June 18, 2009, 11:13

We used to have a shop years ago there was always a sign up with a pictue of Colorado Beetle and to inform which ever government department it was then.  That was back in the 70's  :)

Title: Re: colorado potato beetle
Post by: joyfull on June 18, 2009, 11:22

don't they still have the pictures in police stations? Not been in one fore a long time  :D