Colorado potato beetles can decimate your crops - if you let them. Here are the best ways to keep these pests from doing damage in your garden.

Colorado beetles severely weaken crops, such as potatoes and aubergines. Gardeners who spot the insect are urged to catch it ...

Colorado potato beetle larvae are leaf-eating machines. If growing potato plants have developed flower buds by the time the larvae settle in to feed, they may migrate to the buds and consume them ...

The Colorado Potato Beetle is one of those threats that can infest potatoes, a staple in Maine. Pest specialist Jim Dill ...

By J.J. Barrett Hello Mid-Ohio Valley farmers and gardeners! A delayed happy Father’s Day to all the dads out there in the ...

Old-fashioned potato bugs were the predominant insect pest on potatoes in the eastern part of the United States. Now however, Colorado potato beetles are the most common pests of potatoes and have ...

Ledprona works by turning off a gene the Colorado potato beetle needs to produce a protein that is critical for its survival. The Massachusetts-based biotech firm GreenLight Biosciences, which ...

Like the Colorado potato beetle, this pest also causes problems in the U.S., but it’s harder to control in Europe and Asia, where farmers use fewer pesticides.

If not eradicated, Colorado potato beetles can completely strip the leaves from potato plants.

Jerusalem crickets span two genera, meanwhile the name “potato bug” can refer to a Jerusalem cricket, a roly-poly, or a Colorado potato beetle.