Potato Beetles

The potato beetle has a bright yellow body with 5 stripes in brown down the body. It is generally about 10 mm long and feeds on the leaves of the potato crop. Potato beetles are also quite unfriendly with tomato and egg plant crops and are therefore a pest that must be eradicated from your farm or kitchen garden. These beetles are very prolific and the female may lay 800 eggs at a time which may be found on the underside of the leaves of the plant affected. It is estimated that in each season three generations of potato beetles can occur and therefore infestations of these beetles are to be viewed very seriously. These beetles are known to completely kill off plants, and even when they do not, they severely affect the yield.