Colorado beetle

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noun

1. Also called: potato beetle.  a black-and-yellow beetle, Leptinotarsa decemlineata, that is a serious pest of potatoes, feeding on the leaves: family Chrysomelidae

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Colorado beetle

Potato-beetle:—The striped Colorado beetle, which invariably finds the potato patch, no matter how small or isolated.

From Home Vegetable Gardening — a Complete and Practical Guide to the Planting and Care of All Vegetables, Fruits and Berries Worth Growing for Home Use by Rockwell, F. F. (Frederick Frye)

She, in return, has given us the Phylloxera, a few visitations of yellow fever, the Blatta gigantea, and, climate allowing, may perhaps throw in the Colorado beetle as a make-weight.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 303, October 22, 1881 by Various

The other is the striped Colorado beetle, the eggs of which are laid on the under side of the leaves, and develop into adults in a short time.

From Checking the Waste A Study in Conservation by Gregory, Mary Huston

The Colorado beetle, by the immense damage it was doing to a necessary food crop, first led to a regular method of fighting insects in this country.

From Checking the Waste A Study in Conservation by Gregory, Mary Huston

Of the numerous plagues of this kind the locust, phylloxera and Colorado beetle may be cited.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various