Colorado beetle
Leptinotarsa decemlineata
Symptoms
- Damage to leaf edges
- When present in large numbers whole plants can be devoured, leaving only a few stems and petioles
- Yellow-orange coloured eggs on the underside of the leaf
Spread
- Can survive in the soil
- Adult beetles fly
- Not established in the UK
- Notifiable quarantine pest
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