Friday, March 31, 2023

Arthro-Pod EP 134: History's Favorite Beetle- The Colorado Potato Beetle


Howdy bug lover's and welcome to today's episode of Arthro-Pod! Over the last couple of years, Jonathan has noticed it seems like the Colorado potato beetle pops up again and again in the history of entomology. So, for today's show, he tried to cover this handsome beetle's history from the 1800s until today. It's a crazy tale that involved colonization, war, Cold War era tactics, and even the Ukrainian-Russian War. Tune in to hear how this humble coleopteran from the Great Plains has become an international super bug!


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Show notes

Major source:

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lawrence-Lacey/publication/291303476_Microbial_control_of_the_potato_tuber_moth_Lepidoptera_Gelechiidae/links/56a7be9308ae860e0255857e/Microbial-control-of-the-potato-tuber-moth-Lepidoptera-Gelechiidae.pdf

 

Say’s Description

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b4268076&view=1up&seq=493

While not a Colorado potato beetle, this diagram shows off the trick tarsal formula for CPB

Origin of CPB
https://scholar.valpo.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1215&context=tgle

The movement of Colorado potato beetle from Nebraska to the Eastern US

The movement of Colorado potato beetle as an invasive pest in Europe. 


Origins of potatoes

https://web.archive.org/web/20110426183520/http://www.cipotato.org/pressroom/press_releases_detail.asp?cod=17&lang=en

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20200302-the-true-origins-of-the-humble-potato

Native potatoes:

https://www.the-journal.com/articles/on-the-trail-of-tiny-tubers-this-four-corners-potato-was-a-staple-of-native-american-diets/

https://thecounter.org/four-corners-potato-species-indigenous-crop-navajo-nation-usda-southwest-future/

War on the Potato Beetle

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-23929124







Communist propaganda:

https://research.calvin.edu/german-propaganda-archive/amikafer.htm

Ukraine and Koloradi

https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-colorado-beetle-separatists/25365793.html

https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/amet.13131

CPB Control

https://extension.umaine.edu/publications/2424e/

https://ag.umass.edu/sites/ag.umass.edu/files/pdf-doc-ppt/cpb_insecticide_groups.pdf

https://cropwatch.unl.edu/potato/colo_potato_beetle


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