{"id":2952,"date":"2012-03-12T17:38:15","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T21:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/home-and-garden-ipm\/?page_id=2952"},"modified":"2021-01-15T12:28:04","modified_gmt":"2021-01-15T17:28:04","slug":"colorado-potato-beetle","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/home-and-garden-ipm\/fact-sheets\/common-name-listing\/colorado-potato-beetle\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado Potato Beetle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>Colorado Potato Beetle<\/strong> (<em>Leptinotarsa decemlineata<\/em>), as its name implies, is a serious pest of potatoes. It also likes tomatoes and eggplant. Both the adult beetles as well as their larvae feed on the foliage of the plants, skeletonizing them.\u00a0 The females are very prolific, with each one laying as many as 800 eggs.\u00a0 They are very difficult to control because they can rapidly develop resistance to chemicals and so are currently immune to most of the major\/traditional classes of pesticides.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 16%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-2952 gallery-columns-6 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/home-and-garden-ipm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2010\/10\/CPB.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/home-and-garden-ipm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2010\/10\/CPB-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Colorado Potato Beetle - 4 different images together\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/home-and-garden-ipm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2010\/10\/CPB-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/home-and-garden-ipm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2010\/10\/CPB-32x32.jpg 32w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-407'>\n\t\t\t\tColorado Potato Beetle (above: larvae, and below: adults)\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a 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\/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-10185'>\n\t\t\t\tA heavy infestation of Colorado Potato Beetle (larvae and adults)\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/home-and-garden-ipm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2020\/03\/CPB-Damage-to-Eggplant-JFD.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/home-and-garden-ipm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2020\/03\/CPB-Damage-to-Eggplant-JFD-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Eggplant leaves damaged by Colorado Potato Beetle\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-10284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/home-and-garden-ipm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2020\/03\/CPB-Damage-to-Eggplant-JFD-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/home-and-garden-ipm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2020\/03\/CPB-Damage-to-Eggplant-JFD-32x32.jpg 32w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-10284'>\n\t\t\t\tEggplant damaged by Colorado Potato Beetle\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/home-and-garden-ipm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2020\/03\/Tomato-Damage-from-Colorado-Potato-Beetle-JFD.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/home-and-garden-ipm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2020\/03\/Tomato-Damage-from-Colorado-Potato-Beetle-JFD-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Tomato plant with damage from Colorado Potato Beetles\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-10306\" srcset=\"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/home-and-garden-ipm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2020\/03\/Tomato-Damage-from-Colorado-Potato-Beetle-JFD-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/home-and-garden-ipm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2020\/03\/Tomato-Damage-from-Colorado-Potato-Beetle-JFD-32x32.jpg 32w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-10306'>\n\t\t\t\tTomato plant damaged by Colorado Potato Beetle\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Additional Information:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.potatobeetle.org\/overview.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Colorado Potato Beetle Biology and Management<\/strong><\/a> (UMaine&#8217;s PotatoBeetle.org site)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Colorado Potato Beetle (Leptinotarsa decemlineata), as its name 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Both the adult beetles as well as their larvae feed on the foliage of the plants, skeletonizing them.\u00a0 The females are very prolific, with each one laying as many as 800 eggs.\u00a0 They [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":0,"parent":1561,"menu_order":96,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2952","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Colorado Potato Beetle - Home and Garden IPM from Cooperative Extension - University of Maine Cooperative Extension<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/home-and-garden-ipm\/fact-sheets\/common-name-listing\/colorado-potato-beetle\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Colorado Potato Beetle - Home and Garden IPM from Cooperative Extension - University of Maine Cooperative Extension\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Colorado Potato Beetle (Leptinotarsa decemlineata), as its name implies, is a serious pest of potatoes. 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