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Is it Potato Beetle?

galinas
9 years ago

I have tons of these on my potatoes. Picking every day.
I used to think, that potato beetle should be more on a round side of a shape, then this guy. Actually, I thought it is cucumber beetles emerge on my potatoes where last year I had Zucchini growing. But then I checked for eggs - a lot of leaves had them. What I read about cucumber beetles - they lay eggs in the ground or near the plant base. So orange eggs on the leaves do not match. but shape of the beetle doesn't match potato beetle as well. On the picture the beetle is after soap bath, otherwise they fly away easily. So colors a a bit smashed. They in fact yellow/black stripped. The length of the beetle is 1/4 inch without antennas.

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