Colorado beetle

British  

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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Example Sentences

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

Of course we have to fight the potato, or Colorado, beetle during the growing season.

From The Home Acre by Roe, Edward Payson

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)

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

Now if they catch the Colorado beetle of us, it will go far toward paying them off for the rats and the mice, and for other pests in our houses.

From The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton by Burroughs, John