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Meanings of potato bug in English
Portuguese
besouro-da-batata 
(Leptinotarsa decemlineata) Yellow and black striped beetle from the family of the Chrysomelidae which originates from America and feeds upon parts of the potato plant.
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A terrestrial crustacean that is a member of the suborder Oniscidea.
Synonyms
Examples for "colorado beetle"
Examples for "colorado beetle"
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The red chuprassie is our Colorado beetle, our potato disease, our Home ruler, our cupboard skeleton, the little rift in our lute.
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He then set to work with Esther's pencils, and drew a portrait of Catherine under the figure of a large Colorado beetle, with wings extended.
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In summer they eat Colorado potato beetles, chinch-bugs, cotton boll-weevils, squash-beetles, grasshoppers and cutworms.
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The others will depend on my knowledge and experience when the Colorado potato beetles strike.
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Expression studies demonstrate that StZFP2 transcript is also induced by tobacco hornworm and Colorado potato beetle.
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Furthermore, according to our monitoring, high temperature in summer also limited Colorado potato beetle to diffuse eastward through Turpan.
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The New Yorker, July 29, 1950 P. 11 Talk story about the Colorado potato beetle.
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Potatoes can withstand significant potato beetle leaf damage and still produce.
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Expression studies demonstrate that StZFP2 transcript is also induced by tobacco hornworm and Colorado potato beetle.
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The cutworm, the tomato worm, the horn worm, potato beetle and various blights may come to tomatoes.
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The potato beetle "scare" is not of much account in the country of the potato beetle.
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Furthermore, according to our monitoring, high temperature in summer also limited Colorado potato beetle to diffuse eastward through Turpan.
Usage of potato bug in English
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This was wise because he thus got ahead of the potato bug.
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The potato bug is another fellow to look out for.
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Perhaps it will interest that old farmer potato bug.
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Simple as a child, he is, and so gentle that it well-nigh breaks his heart to kill a potato bug.
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And on the under side of the leaf of the potato vine are the bright orange eggs of the potato bug.
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In his search for the potato bug he misses the sunset, and disposes of the primrose on the river's brim as a common weed.
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The potato bugs are very harmful, and we must get rid of them.
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She doesn't care for hungry babies and potato bugs.
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From May to October potato bugs flourish.
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He found that it would not work, and so used it to grind up potato bugs for blisters.
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They certainly do love potato bugs.
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Toads will eat all sorts of flies, potato bugs, squash bugs, rose bugs, caterpillars, and almost anything that crawls.
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"Tell her you are so friendly with him you feed him potato bugs."
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"Is that the only way to drive away the potato bugs?"
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He has suggested to U.S. Marine Corps officials in Washington that they direct their aviators to drop potato bugs over Germany.
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"And potato bugs," finished Grace, while the girls laughed merrily.