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Meanings of ten-striped spearman in English

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(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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        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.
        Twenty-One Days in India, or, the Tour Of Sir Ali Baba K.C.B.; a...
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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.
        Esther
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        In summer they eat Colorado potato beetles, chinch-bugs, cotton boll-weevils, squash-beetles, grasshoppers and cutworms.
        Checking the Waste: A Study in Conservation
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        The others will depend on my knowledge and experience when the Colorado potato beetles strike.
        The botany of desire: a plant's-eye view of the world
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        Expression studies demonstrate that StZFP2 transcript is also induced by tobacco hornworm and Colorado potato beetle.
        Pubmed
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        Furthermore, according to our monitoring, high temperature in summer also limited Colorado potato beetle to diffuse eastward through Turpan.
        Pubmed
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        The New Yorker, July 29, 1950 P. 11 Talk story about the Colorado potato beetle.
        The new yorker
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        Potatoes can withstand significant potato beetle leaf damage and still produce.
        Vegetable gardening for dummies
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        Expression studies demonstrate that StZFP2 transcript is also induced by tobacco hornworm and Colorado potato beetle.
        Pubmed
        3
        The cutworm, the tomato worm, the horn worm, potato beetle and various blights may come to tomatoes.
        The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming.
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        The potato beetle "scare" is not of much account in the country of the potato beetle.
        A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
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        Furthermore, according to our monitoring, high temperature in summer also limited Colorado potato beetle to diffuse eastward through Turpan.
        Pubmed
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        This was wise because he thus got ahead of the potato bug.
        The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming.
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        The potato bug is another fellow to look out for.
        The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming.
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        Perhaps it will interest that old farmer potato bug.
        The Letters of Franklin K. Lane, Personal and Political
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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.
        Walter and the Wireless
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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.
        Charlotte’s Web