Everything you need to know about the Colorado Potato Beetle
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- čas přidán 13. 09. 2024
- When Bonnie Bucqueroux found a hard-shelled, humpback striped beetle munching its way through her potato patch, she went on a mission to learn all she could about options for controlling this pest. You can benefit from her research.
You're your own worst enemy if you're releasing them and not killing them.
I dont know who this lady is, i just happen to stumble upon this video, but i personally think shes very informative and hilarious at the same time .I dont even grow anything either.
What a good video ! My young son and I were studying insects today and found this very helpful. Informative and amusing, you have a very pleasant voice to listen to. I hope your beetle problem becomes more manageable.
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Bonnie- this is the most informative video I have ever seen on you tube! As a gardener of 20+ years- I have never seen a colorado potato beetle (truth) my plants are covered with the red spotted larve as I am in a new home. WOW. Luckily- I watched your video and I am harvesting presently- you have yourself a new subscriber!
The problem with taking out all the other types of plants they eat. Is that they then only have the potatoes to eat! Leave the wild plants and they are more likely to stay on them. A lot of farmers are realizing this and leaving a 10ft strip of wild flowers round there farm fields seriously reduces pests on their crops. You also encourage the birds and other insects that eat the pests.
There was a big campaign warning people about the Colorado Beetle and the threat it posed to potato crops in Britain in the mid-70s,when it was feared they would invade and cause devastation.
In the 1970s, here in England, I lived in total fear of these. For some reason we were supposed to fear the mere sighting of one of these, and no visit to the Post Office was complete without seeing a poster of these with the strict instruction to telephone the police if you ever saw one (I'm fairly sure I thought the posters showed them life-sized, and not blown up!).
That was nearly 50 years ago, yet I have still to see one of these bugs (and I'm fairly sure we have a much more suitable climate for them)
Potato beetle! We got em too….you made a very nice video by the way!
1 gallon water + Neem oil as directed and 2 Tablespoons or more original Dawn dish liquid in a sprayer. Spray STARTING AT THE ROOTS.
Dawn suffocates them. Use tape to collect the eggs first. Go back after an hour or so to see how many climbed to the top of the leaves trying to get away.
Last year my friend had a ' it's us or them ' problem.
A properly applied thumb works good on the eggs. I tend to use a pliers on the adults and larvae.
I use Tomatillos as a trap crop. They eat the ground cherry plants and leave my potatoes alone. I still handpick them and toss them into sudsy water, but my potatoes are happy and plump.
Dude.. I get all that love nature stuff.. but.. I come from generations of people who grow their own potatoes. You are heading In a right direction. But you burn them little things with gasoline. In the can. Burn them. They spread and multiply way quicker than your 200 yard rule.
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This is a great video. I have the same problem with this beetle every year. Diatom.. Earth worked great on the larva but the adults doesn't really seem to care. When I put the powder on the larva they would just fall off the plant in just a few minutes. But my garden is next to a field full of ground cherries so the only way I can take care of them is to kill them.
I got rid of my potatoe beetles organically with either oat bran cereal or wheat flakes cereal. The potatoe bugs like it so much that they can’t stop eating it and in the growth stage before they get their hard shell they explode from overeating the cereal.
I crush them whenever I find them.
They do not come back after that!
Smell their guts if you want to destroy your whole respiratory systen, they smell worse than shit
Great video. I have this issue this year. First time ever. Not fun, not pleasant. Moving my potatoes far away from main garden next year, hoping that helps. We shall see.
good video... well done! Yep... send your Colorado Potato beetles to Washington DC... they'll fit right in with the other pests.
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Fantastisc storytelling voice! And learned a lot. For one, I refuse to let them live. These are not native to the Netherlands. They came from the USA in the 70's and we had to report them then... Not anymore, I just found out. They are here to stay....
They came to the U.S. from Mexico. I'm impressed by their ability to adapt to different climates.
You should definitely be a story teller! I enjoyed your idea of dropping them off at the capital to hang out with the other pests we have in Washington! 😂 but to be blunt, these bugs are not the kind I would let live. They breed way to quickly & will decimate plants & the all the hard work will go out the window! If you can squish the eggs that helps. I'm still searching for the best way to eradicate the little monsters!
You are great! I loved the video. You should have talked about the eggs. If you can find the eggs under the leaves you will save yourself a heck of a lot of work.
Thank You ,All the Information
excellent video, Bonnie
Moving them makes them someone else's problem
I just use two fingers and smash em to hell 😳
Amazing finishing words ;)
Some just started showing up in my garden this year (1st time in 3 years). I hope that I can get them under control before they begin the first cycle!
+growingNokc Three weeks of constant vigilance and picking my friend. If your neighbor got potatoes make sure he does his picking and that he just dont let them go like this tree hugging lady done in this video.
Politically hilarious!
Try putting down some perforated black plastic (very small holes) around the base of each plant. That may prevent (or reduce the number of them that can make it onto your plants.
You can also sterilize your soil with steam. That will kill weeds & most micro-organisms--but that isn't easy or inexpensive to do--but it would be effective.
I am looking for an organic pest control for the potato beetles. Nasty creatures.. Great information!
Thanks I didn’t learn a thing.
I netted my potatoes this year....and so far no beetles....
Great info! I love your voice, it's like story telling! We pay the kids to pic them off and throw them into the chicken pin. I definitely like your suggestion of sending them to the white house to hang with the rest of the pests.😂
"Hang" being an operative word...
While I don't grow potatoes and never really see L. Decemlineata I deal with L. Juncta. I would try to use a fungal pesticide such as Beauveria bassiana(I believe Mycotrol is a trade name). I typically use a combination of Spinosad and BT to get both larva and beetle stage at the same time. I will probably try some Beauveria bassiana this year as well, its a pretty broad beetle control.
The GMO potatoes were only modified with wild relative potatoes. Probably could have, and should have, been done through crossing and selective breeding.. but I guess its too late now.
Thanks, very informative.
They look like a Beetlejuice beetle! 😁😆😂🤣
don't overengineer their removal. Just collect them in your hand and later crush them. That's the most humane way of eliminating them, they die without suffering.
While a bit creepy.. It seems incineration might be the better option, for control..?
thank you
No, those are NOT the pupae of the beetle as you mention. They are the 1 - 4 instar forms of the larvae.......quite a different phase in the lifecycle. Pupae occur underground.
Very informative!
Have you ever used Wood Vinegar as a natural pesticide? It is popular in ASia but not so much in North America
Sounds interesting. Would it be similar to wood alcohol?
I have no problem killing the bugs .but the eggs larva is the way too get them out of your garden I am using hydrogen peroxide diluted in water on my potatoes .s I'll see if it helps soon.
I use D E Earth for human conception on mine. It's natural and it works
Hmm yeah its an everyday really tedious task untill you put them under control. i thought im gonna dig out all potatoes how frustrated i was. but after a few weeks to month you put them under control. And - if you had big red guys some of them probably went under ground so be ready for them as well.. everyday task for a week again. now its just like 10 bugs a day or in a two days.. liveable... kinda
Yes!! Drive them down to the capital!!
My own personal solution, after noticing these bugs in my potato patch this year, has so far been to twice a day go up and down the rows checking for adults and eggs. Every patch of eggs gets gently scraped off of the leaf and smooshed into the soil, and every adult beetle gets their head flicked off, the body also buried in the soil.
Hopefully I can keep up and prevent any of the eggs from ever hatching, the adult population has already dropped from several dozen caught on day one to just six caught today, and the egg clusters are far less common than they were just a few days ago. No larvae yet. If any of the eggs do hatch, the larvae going the same way as the adults. Maybe all those decomposing insects will add some good nitrogen to the soil and actually end up helping my potatoes rather than damaging them. I may not have to start any new patches hundreds of meters away either, if most of the adults are exterminated and the life cycle never gets completed.
I would blow them up
Sounds kind of fun and they also can't feel pain so it a win win
Might Guinea hens like to eat those bugs?
I feed them to the chickens.
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Great information on this video, though I do have a contention with your lack of understanding of GMO's.
GMO's are a buzzword. Every single fruit and vegetable we have in the United States (and the world) has been modified genetically from its ancestral form.
Corn didn't used to have hundreds of kernels. We didn't have hundreds of apple varieties, watermelons were tiny.
All of these items gammhave been modified to either make more food, tastier food, easier to grow, etc.
Humans have been crossbreeding strains and seeds for hundreds if not thousands of years.
GMO is a buzzword used by the agricultural industry so they can sell you another buzzword item: "organic".
Selective breeding is a lot different than crossing Injecting DNA from a completely different organism. For example, Corn is a domesticated version of Teosinte just done through selective breeding, which is fine. Whereas BT corn has foreign
DNA in it. That is where I draw the line.
@Shinshocks555 Functionally, it's very different. Selective breeding weeds out undesirable traits from an already existent gene pool. GMO adds dna from a completely different gene pool.
i assume you were kidding about googling the bug? haha
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put a chicken in your hoop house
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If you have chickens they will eat them.
What breed of chickens do you have that eat these things? I tried to encourage my chickens to eat them, but they wouldnt do it.
I was wondering about that.
But yee
I kill Colorado bug