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    Default Colorado Potato Beetle

    I understand these things are very resilient to pesticides, or at least grow resistance quickly. First year growing potatoes at this place and they came out the woodwork. I waited them out to see if I could manage them by hand but with 300ft of plants they got out of control quick.

    What's a good place to start? I'd be happy just to keep em in check.

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    I had luck with 7 dust but first year? They should make it
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    They didn't. I avoided using pesticide until it was too late.

    May 1st, potatoes are the three rows on left:
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    This past weekend:
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    They have started migrating to the tomatoes. This is today after three days of hand picking every single beetle off of 50+ plants:
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    I’d be spraying!

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    With f'n flame. That makes me feel sick. I'm really not far away from you, and I haven't had that problem yet, or on our farm. We used to grow a shit pot full of potatoes down there.

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    That will ruin your day.

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    yeah...thats a buzzkill for sure. I'd send them fuckers back to colorado. Maybe you should plant some sensimilla and let them eat that?

    i had some cut worms that chopped down half my sweet corn. my caretaker didnt seem to care.

    I'm hiring.
    Ugh. Stupid people piss me off.

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    You need to borrow some chickens for a day.

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    Tried chickens. They wouldn't touch em.

    HS, horse nettle is why they are here. It's kind of an annoying but unintrusive plant. Never really thought much about it or even noticed the beetles, but they were here all along.

    Carbaryl kills them. Im just hesitant to spray plants that are already fruiting...

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    Ahh, since I've been a kid I started calling horse nettle "stinging nettles". I grabbed one when I was young on a dove shoot..

    Since then I kill everyone I see, that and dog fennel. I have a sprayer set up at my house just for it. For the first few years after we built, I would walk the road and place killing any one if those I saw.

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    Have you tried Bifenthrin?
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    that occurs due to a lack of alcohol.

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    Colorado potato beetle sounds like a good folk band name.

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    They wiped me out a couple of years ago so now, every morning I inspect them.
    Gettin old is for pussies! AND MY NEW TRUE people say like Capt. Tom >>>>>>>>>/
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    Quote Originally Posted by BOOMSTICK069 View Post
    Have you tried Bifenthrin?
    i’d use it on potatoes at any stage, but only at a certain time for plants already with fruits and veggies. it’s approved for organic gardening. use pyrethrums or neem oil on plants with fruits.
    Windows Down!

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    Neem wont touch CPB. Bifenthrin will but it has a 7 day preharvest interval (original Sevin dust is bifenthrin). Those bastards worked my eggplants over real bad but a dose of bifen wiped them out. Thrips have been terrible too.
    cut\'em

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    Quote Originally Posted by Southernduck View Post
    Neem wont touch CPB. Bifenthrin will but it has a 7 day preharvest interval (original Sevin dust is bifenthrin). Those bastards worked my eggplants over real bad but a dose of bifen wiped them out. Thrips have been terrible too.
    That's why I was curious if it had been tried. Bifen has resolved any and every issue I have had in my garden with insects.
    Reality is only an illusion
    that occurs due to a lack of alcohol.

    “A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity”. Sigmund Freud

    Quote Originally Posted by badfaulkner View Post

    ......Some of you guys are fastidious and choosy to the point of near faggotry.

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    Check out diatomaceous earth.
    We gave you Corn,you gave us clap,bad trade.

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