Colorado beetle

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I really ask for help. Last year our potatoes suffered trouble in the form of this beetle. The potatoes are terrible, with holes. What should I do? How to fight?

Some of our neighbors in the garden, as soon as these beetles appear, the whole family begins to walk among the potato tops, collect them in plastic bottles, and then destroy them. And they do this because they need to save the potatoes, and they don’t want to poison the beetles with chemicals, they want to eat the crop without pesticides.

If the area with potatoes is small, then you can collect the beetles yourself. But if there is a whole field of potatoes, then it is advisable to use chemical control methods.

Do you mean potatoes are terrible? You have so many beetles that they have eaten all the leaves and started eating the tubers, or how can we understand your expression? We spray our potatoes all the time when there are too many bugs. If it’s not enough, then we collect it by hand, or rather, we drive the children out to the garden beds.

I don't know how much there is. But the potatoes are bad after harvesting, not smooth. It is impossible to clean it. All or through one type in holes. Sprayed, but does not come out.

Somehow, I doubt that it was the Colorado potato beetle that damaged the tubers of your potatoes. The beetle usually eats the tops and thereby harms the crop.But the wireworm really likes to damage the tubers, then they really become a hole.

So he not only ate the tubers, but the leaves were also in the hole. I'm worried about the current harvest. Here's what to do while you're thinking. We fought and fought and here you are.

Hello! I’ll intervene in your conversation - the beetle and larvae eat the tops, and in your soil you have wireworms - most likely you have recently mastered the site, or you have a lot of grass in the borders in which beetles live - click beetles, wireworms are its larvae that live in you in the garden for 3-4 years (the time of development of the larva) for the Colorado potato beetle, I can recommend any drug with the active ingredient DELTAMETHRIN (decis - pro, intavir, etc.) by the time of harvest, the drug will already decompose in the soil, if you don’t want chemicals, soak it burdock leaves for 3 days, dilute with water and spray, but this is more likely to prevent the appearance

Adding lime to the soil helps prevent wireworms, which is what most likely eats the tubers. These worms love acidic soil, and if you add lime or chalk to it, there will be much less wireworms.

Are you sure that it was the Colorado potato beetle that damaged the tubers? Potatoes have many pests in the soil. And the Colorado potato beetle usually damages the leaves.

Just recently I realized what it is - Colorado potato beetles. I asked about the spray and the chemicals - there are plenty, but I don’t want them... I had to collect them myself!

It’s very strange that the beetle has already reached the potatoes, that is, the tubers. You must have a sea of ​​beetles.In this case, it’s easier to spray them and at least somehow protect the potatoes, otherwise you’ll be left without a harvest at all.

When planting potatoes, you need to process the potato tubers. You can use Antikhrushch, it is scattered over the hole in which the material is laid out. Then just coat the potatoes and that’s it.