Colorado Potato Beetle

svalli · July 4, 2009

When growing potatoes in Wisconsin, we got the darn beetles on potatoes and some years on tomatoes too. I bought some BT product targeted to Colorado beetles from Farm'n Fleet. It worked on the larvae and the adults we squished.
I learned from my first year to look for them and started sraying the BT as soon as I found first mating adults.

I hope you'll find a product, which will kill those pests. Colorado Potato beetles do not survive the winter here, but every summer some of them come on some vegetable shipments from south and try to find a new homes on potato fields. The Finnish Food Safety Authority has a website for reporting any Colorado Potato beetle sightings and I am on lookout for any striped beetles on my plants.

July 4, 2009	#9
svalli Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Vaasa, Finland, latitude N 63° Posts: 838	When growing potatoes in Wisconsin, we got the darn beetles on potatoes and some years on tomatoes too. I bought some BT product targeted to Colorado beetles from Farm'n Fleet. It worked on the larvae and the adults we squished. I learned from my first year to look for them and started sraying the BT as soon as I found first mating adults. I hope you'll find a product, which will kill those pests. Colorado Potato beetles do not survive the winter here, but every summer some of them come on some vegetable shipments from south and try to find a new homes on potato fields. The Finnish Food Safety Authority has a website for reporting any Colorado Potato beetle sightings and I am on lookout for any striped beetles on my plants. __________________ "I only want to live in peace, plant potatoes and dream." - Moomin-troll by Tove Jansson