In the summer of 1950, farmers across East Germany began finding their potato crops stripped bare. The culprit was the ...

Potatoes are the most consumed vegetable in the United States. According to the USDA, US farmers grew more than 42 billion lbs. of potatoes in 2019. That's 128 lbs. of potatoes per person. But farmers ...

The Colorado potato beetle has evolved resistance to more than 50 different kinds of insecticides, making the insect a "super pest" that wreaks havoc on potatoes around the world. New research finds ...

My first encounter with old-fashioned potato beetles took place very early in my career. This was way before there was such a thing as the internet. A client brought in an elongated, dark gray beetle ...

The Colorado potato beetle—Leptinotarsa decemlineata of Chrysomelidae family—is one of the most widespread and destructive Solanaceae plants pests in the world. Although the use of insecticides helps ...

In 1950, a striped potato beetle became the centre of one of the Cold War's most unusual propaganda campaigns after East ...

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The Colorado potato beetle has evolved resistance to more than 50 different kinds of insecticides, making the insect a 'super pest' that wreaks havoc on potatoes around the world. New research finds ...