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单词 potato beetle
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potato beetle


potato beetle

n. The Colorado potato beetle.

potato beetle

n (Animals) another name for the Colorado beetle
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Noun1.potato beetle - black-and-yellow beetle that feeds in adult and larval stages on potato leavespotato beetle - black-and-yellow beetle that feeds in adult and larval stages on potato leaves; originally of eastern Rocky Mountains; now worldwideColorado beetle, Colorado potato beetle, Leptinotarsa decemlineata, potato bugchrysomelid, leaf beetle - brightly colored beetle that feeds on plant leaves; larvae infest roots and stemsgenus Leptinotarsa, Leptinotarsa - Colorado potato beetles
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potato beetle


potato beetle,

name for two beetlesbeetle,
common name for insects of the order Coleoptera, which, with more than 300,000 described species, is the largest of the insect orders. Beetles have chewing mouthparts and well-developed antennae.
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 of the leaf beetle family and for two of the blister beetleblister beetle,
common name for certain soft-bodied, usually black or brown, mostly elongate and cylindrical beetles belonging to the family Meloidae. Blister beetles are common insects found feeding on the flowers and foliage of various plants. Occasionally some, e.g.
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 family, all destructive to the potato plant and its relatives. Most notorious is the Colorado potato beetle, or potato bug (Leptinotarsa decemlineata), a black-and-yellow striped member of the leaf beetle family. It was once confined to the Rocky Mts., where it lived on wild members of the nightshade, or potato, family. When settlers introduced the Irish, or white, potato (c.1855), the insect spread through most of the United States and then to Europe. Its orange-yellow eggs are laid in clusters on the undersides of the leaves, on which the reddish, black-spotted larvae feed. Pupation (see insectinsect,
invertebrate animal of the class Insecta of the phylum Arthropoda. Like other arthropods, an insect has a hard outer covering, or exoskeleton, a segmented body, and jointed legs. Adult insects typically have wings and are the only flying invertebrates.
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) takes place on the ground, and the adults emerge to feed on the potato plants; they hibernate underground during the winter. The destruction caused by the Colorado potato beetle has been one of the chief reasons for the development of insecticides; Paris green and other arsenic compounds have been used extensively. A member of the same family is the three-lined potato beetle (Lema trilineata) of the E United States, sometimes called old-fashioned potato beetle. The adults are yellow-orange with black stripes and lay their eggs scattered randomly over potato leaves. Two blister beetles of the genus Epicauta are also known as old-fashioned potato beetles. They are slender insects with complex life histories, passing through several larval stages before pupating. They feed on potatoes, tomatoes, and other members of the nightshade family. One (Epicauta vittata) has orange and black stripes and is also called striped potato beetle, or striped blister beetle; the other (E. marginata) is black with gray margins. The various potato beetles termed "old fashioned" were considered major pests before the spread of the more destructive Colorado potato beetle. Potato beetles are classified in the phylum ArthropodaArthropoda
[Gr.,=jointed feet], largest and most diverse animal phylum. The arthropods include crustaceans, insects, centipedes, millipedes, spiders, scorpions, and the extinct trilobites.
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, class Insecta, order Coleoptera. The Colorado potato beetle and the three-lined potato beetle are classified in the family Chrysomelidae and the old-fashioned potato beetles (Epicauta) in the family Meloidae.

potato beetle


Related to potato beetle: Roly poly bug
  • noun

Synonyms for potato beetle

noun black-and-yellow beetle that feeds in adult and larval stages on potato leaves

Synonyms

  • Colorado beetle
  • Colorado potato beetle
  • Leptinotarsa decemlineata
  • potato bug

Related Words

  • chrysomelid
  • leaf beetle
  • genus Leptinotarsa
  • Leptinotarsa
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