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Colorado potato beetle

CPBs

13 Mar 20164 Aug 2012 by Mike (tfb)

Pre-squish: Brand new Colorado potato beetle, larva about the size of a match head, on eggplant. Around the leaf edge, older damage done by bigger CPBs. Recently, for whatever reason, they’ve been around but not in numbers enough to be … Read the rest

Categories Farm lab (research!), Fieldwork, Pests & Disease, Veggies, Weather Tags Colorado potato beetle, eggplant, insects 1 Comment

Checking potatoes

2 Sep 201120 Jun 2007 by Mike (tfb)

Potatoes are looking good, all weeded and hilled, around seven weeks after going in. There’s been a Colorado potato beetle watch on for the last few days, the little guys are out in some force this year, more than in … Read the rest

Categories Veggies Tags Colorado potato beetle, potato, Spring 7 Comments

Not a pretty picture

27 Apr 200914 Jun 2007 by Mike (tfb)

In today’s field photo selection, there was a kinda cool shot of a last-season carrot starting to flower, a freshly hand-weeded onion patch looking quite sharp, or this shiny, slimy cluster of baby Colorado potato beetles, going to town on … Read the rest

Categories Fieldwork, Pests & Disease, Veggies Tags Colorado potato beetle, eggplant, Spring 23 Comments

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